February Stuff

I love Parker.  I especially love that he still takes naps.  I love the photo above because he looks how I feel at 9:30pm every night after a day of going non-stop.  This morning my alarm went off at 5:40am so I could go running and after reluctantly climbing out of bed I walked into the closet and could hear the rain pouring down.  Perfect excuse to go running later! and I hopped back into bed for another hour.  It felt so good.

The Batmobile

 We survived another Pinewood Derby.  Randy and Ethan started out with minimal interest in the competition this year, especially since Ethan won 1st place last year, but Randy can't do anything half way so he still managed to put in lots of time building a fast car.  

But here's something you probably don't know about the derby.  Until you race your car for the first time, you really have no idea how it's going to do, regardless of the time you spent building it.  That first race is the moment of truth and that's what makes the whole thing exciting.  Well, to me anyway. Ethan's car did great.  He was up against 15 other cars and was holding strong at 2nd/3rd place when they raced the final four cars.  You'll have to watch the clip below to see the horrifying crash as Ethan's hopes are dashed to pieces.  After three consecutive crashes his car took a beating and finished 4th overall.  Oh well.

Ethan right before "the moment of truth"

The sun has been appearing more frequently which allows us to spend more time outside, specifically at the new park that just finished being built down our street.  Some rich lady in the community bought this huge property with a house on it and everything and then donated it to the city under the condition it remained undeveloped.  The city decided it would be OK to develop some of it which is annoying to us because we hate the trees and fence that were ripped out to make room for the parking spots that went in, but the slide, zip line, and walking paths are pretty great.  Oh, and the bridge over the swamp is pretty cool too.  Basically the whole thing makes me even happier about where we live. 

These blossoms wouldn't be appearing for another 2 months in New England.  So glad we live here!

The boys driving to our park

Over the swamp and through the woods to Landon's house we go

Landon standing proudly in front of what he thinks will someday be his house

This is Landon in front of the house that's in the woods at the "new" park.  It's a nice house and totally empty.  Landon decided that since he never wants to move out (I told him eventually he'd have to) he could move into this house.  He talks about it like it's just a matter of time before he moves in.  He even said, "I'll live so close to you, Mom!  And that way when you're going to the grocery store you can call me and I'll meet you there so you can pay for all my food."  I laughed so hard but was kind of disturbed that he's making big plans to be an adult who's still totally dependent on his parents. Hopefully he'll outgrow that!

 

That bobble-head looking boy running across the field is Marcus.  He's playing lacrosse now.  I know NOTHING about this sport and have never seen a game.  Neither has Marcus and his first game is Saturday.  I've decided to embrace my son's natural ability in all things sports and hope he can land a scholarship out of it.  Otherwise this is a lot of time and money down the drain but I try not to think about that.

His coach has a man bun.  As I stand on the sidelines watching and waiting for practice to end, I play out scenarios in my head where I run up and cut the bun off with a pair of scissors and run away before he knows who did it.  Can you imagine how awesome that would be?!