We went on a field trip this morning to ride a city bus around town this morning with some friends. Not knowing how long it would take, I packed lunch and we ate and played at the park before Sierra had to be at preschool. The park is just beautiful right now with all the flowers in the grass.
On the bus
At the park.
Beautiful weekend but way too short. Sean and Sierra played really hard yesterday with Keagan and Clayton and some neighbor boys. I think they were still tired today or else they were just lost without all their playmates. They would go outside for about 5 or 10 minutes and then come back inside.
Some pictures from yesterday.
We stayed home on Easter except for going to church and enjoyed a beautiful day. Sean suggested early in the morning that I should stay home from church and hide the eggs. I managed to find time to hide them even after going to church. Our yard was dry so the kids enjoyed a fun egg hunt.
Kerry came down and worked on our truck with Jeff.
Here are some pictures.
I waited but the dump trucks from Canada never showed so I just started piling on top of the other piles. Starting to run out of room to put the stuff. I don't know what the poor folks out east are doing with all that they've gotten. We haven't really even had that much compared to a lot of other areas.
I'm willing to donate this next round to Vancouver. I hear they've had a shortage up there for the Olympics.
We're supposed to get another 3 to 5" or 4 to 8" depending on who is predicting. I think meteorologist must be a low stress job.
Being our first year in Cub Scouts, the Pinewood Derby has been an interesting experience. Tonight was practice, weigh-in and impound. Sean and Sierra had a blast. Sean's car was running 2nd probably 80% of the races he was practicing in. Finally, I told him it was time to weigh-in and impound it so we can go home. Well, his car had some room to grow and he decided to add some weight. Below his car is on the right, coming in 2nd.
Racing it again, it had obviously lost speed. Thinking it was the weights, he had me remove them but the car did not regain its speed. Graphite was reapplied to the wheels. This seemed to help some but it was late and he was racing against different cars than he had earlier. He was not handling coming in 4th in every practice run before we left and then he did not handle having his car stolen ("impounded") for tomorrow's race. I realized then that we had stayed way too long. We should have left much earlier when the car was running well and he wasn't so tired.
I was very pleased when an older scout, but not by much, tried to console Sean by telling him that he might win when he races against his den and that he might even get first. So sweet. I told Sean later that I hope when he's older that he will be able to help a younger scout in the same way if he sees one that is upset like he was.
Races are tomorrow. I hope that he does not come in 4th every time he races or it will not go well. He can handle 3rd I think, but not last. I reminded him how much fun he had when he was placing well and that he will get to sit his car on his shelf and look forward to next year.
I think Sierra is having a little trouble with depth perception or maybe just understanding how far objects will swing. Sunday she got whacked with a hockey stick on the arm when the boys were playing street hockey. Tuesday she took a baseball bat to the eye while the boys were playing street hockey. We only have two hockey sticks so the boys improvise with a baseball bat and tennis rackets. The first picture was taken yesterday. The second one was taken today. It feels better as it looks worse. It's not nearly as bad as the ones that Sean has had and her glasses help hide it a bit.
