Pinewood Derby

It's Pinewood Derby time!  Last night we had to go check his car in.  This was our first year and had no idea what we were doing or getting into.  We found out though, the hard way.

The cars can weigh up to 5 oz.  When we weighed "Spongebob" it was only 2 oz and some change.  So we glued a bunch of quarters and nickels to the bottom equaling $1.20 hoping that would give us enough weight to be a bit faster.  It increased the weight but unfortunately Christian's car was so slow it barely made it past the finish line.  I felt bad for him because he didn't want to come in last.  I explained to him that this was our first time and that we really didn't know what we were doing.  There were all sorts of shaped cars with tons of extra attachments like fenders and drivers.  We just weren't knowledgeable about the whole derby car experience.  Next year will surely be different.

Christian won for Best Design for his car and he was happy with that.  They served a hot dog lunch and by the time it was over Mason was running on fumes.  He needed a nap bad!  

We came home and had some quiet time which inevitably only lasted about 15 minutes.  Ayden threw a major fit about having to leave Scouts and I put him in his room for a "nap".  He opens the door every 5-7 minutes and yells at me "can I come out now?" to which I answer "NO!"  By the 4th or 5th time of that Mason woke up crying.  GREAT!

I managed to get 5 loads of laundry done and I even cooked dinner!  I was so run down last night that I ended up giving the boys each a cup o' noodles.  I felt bad about that because I usually do better than that.  They were both completely content about it though and I'm thinking about buying more of them for the other crazy nights in our immediate future.