Pinewood Derby and New Bed!

A couple of weekends ago Ronin put his pinewood derby car (a Minecraft "creeper") in the cub scout race.  He got second place out of the 4 that were in his group.  It was pretty fun to watch, but Quinn lost patience about half way though and I had to chase him around the gym a lot. haha

   

Madison has her learners permit and is taking drivers ed - she needed driving time so she drove me all the way to the fairgrounds and back, and then back and forth to my house a couple weekends ago.  She's going to be such a good little driver!

One of our co-workers turned 50, so we threw HIM a princess party in his office.  

My friend, Bill, has been making beds for fun on the side, he said he would make Quinn a bed for the cost of the supplies.  So Quinn's bed is almost finished!  He's so excited to have a big bed!  I still have to find a mattress and stain the wood.  

The bed in pieces

Nearly finished!

The boys are doing good. Ronin is taking a short introductory course for TaeKwonDo.  He really wants to do it after his 5 classes are over, but I don't think I can afford it.  It's definitely good to get him moving though!  We took some walks this week since it was so nice for a couple of days.  Ronin even rode his bike again with the kids in the neighborhood.  He refuses to play with the kids if the older kid, Nick, is playing too because Nick tends to bully them around.  I was kind of proud of him for standing up to Nick and telling him he wouldn't play because Nick is mean to everyone.  Nick then promised to be nice, Ronin stayed and played for a bit until he said Nick started being mean again, then he came home.  Nick is a little punk who is about 4 years older than all the other kids.  I kind of feel sorry for him, he must not have any other friends if he's hanging out with such young kids.  But he's kind of a jerk so I don't feel too bad.

Quinn is doing just fine too.  In fact he hasn't worn pull-ups all week!  Last weekend I told him no more pull-ups and that we'll just have to wash a lot of clothes if he can't use the bathroom.  He rebelled a little on Saturday, but then Sunday he only used the toilet and I didn't have to rewash clothes.  He's doing so good!  It's about time too!   He still wears a diaper at night because he can't hold it that long yet.

Ronin's 7th birthday is coming up fast!  I get them every other weekend next month so that will be easy to plan a party for.  He says he wants to do it at our house so the neighbor kids can come.  And of course, it's going to be a Minecraft birthday theme.  haha

Here's Quinn making up some song to sing...

Not a lot more going on...  

Lots of love!

C

New Year - New Photos - New Dog Bite

We got our family photo's back from Kim - they turned out super cute, especially considering the boys were taking turns being grumpy about having their pictures taken.

Quinn's GQ pose  "hello ladies"

Smiles :)

Trying to smile??

Toothless :)

Quinn might be trying to strangle his brother...

I love this one :)

One of my gifts from a friend on Christmas Eve - POO-dough!

I got the boys back Christmas eve night so we got to wake up together and open presents!

Opening his stocking from Santa

He's excited about the M&M candy cane Santa left him

We headed to Nana and Papa's house on Christmas to have dinner and visit.  The boys were super excited to open even MORE gifts.  They were very spoiled.

Tina licking the air by Quinn 

Flarp!

Quinny got a kitchen- which was his favorite gift. He dragged it to his bedroom to sleep with it by his bed, and in the morning he dragged it back into the living room :)

Ronin got a "creeper" mask from Santa and a creeper shirt from me :)

Quinn got an art kit for Christmas - so he filled our fridge doors with his art ;)

After Christmas the boys asked to be put into separate bedrooms, mostly Ronin since Quinn keeps dumping all his Legos and Kinects on the floor and taking his toys.  Quinn didn't want to sleep separately at first, but they both seem pretty content having their own space to go to.  Ronin made sure his MineCraft posters went with him.  It's so much easier to keep the rooms cleaner now too.  What they don't know is that I took bags of old toys and stored them in the garage.  ha!

Ronin's room

Quinn wanted to ride his tryke outside

Last Saturday Robert, me, Madison and Kyle went to volunteer for the tree-chipping event at work.

Madison and me waiting for trees to chip.

Shortly after we started the tree chipping I got a call from Rory telling me Quinn was in the emergency room.  Ringo attacked him and he had to get stitches.  It was horrible... It took everything I had in me not to cry when I saw him.  He's such a brave little guy, by the time I got there he didn't shed a tear.  He got 13 stitches total.  Most in just his upper lip.  He called his stitches his "mustache" when he felt them.  He got them out yesterday, it looks good so far.  We have to wait until around his 4th birthday to see how badly they scarred.

Monday morning vs. Thursday stitch removal

Cheyla and Nathan got a new puppy, Dris.  She's super cute and both of the boys love just love her.  I wasn't sure Quinn would be okay with animals again, but he had no problem with Kiera or the puppy.  

That's about it for the new year...  

lots of love,

C