Stitches

We had an eventful evening at our house. The kids were playing in the boys room as we were waiting to leave for hockey when we heard a very loud thud. Apparently Jack was graciously helped off the top bunk by Owen (over the edge) and catapulted off the bottom bunk head first into the door. He got a big old gash on his forehead. It was bleeding. A lot. So we wrapped him up and off to the emergency room we went. The first few pictures are the finished product (after 6 stitches) then I added some pictures from before and during the process. I recommend only looking at the first few if you are squeamish but I had a few requests to see the before pictures so I added them. Here is my boy!

 Don't go past here if you don't want to see the gross :)

Pinewood Derby!

Today was Jack's cub scout Pinewood Derby. He had almost no interest in building his car this week because I don't think he realized how much fun it would be. Once he decorated it last night (with Ninjago stickers of course!) he started to get excited...and nervous! Here are the first few cars that got weighed in. Jack's is the gold #3 car.

 Jack and Owen waiting for the fun to begin.

 Checking out the track and probably discussing their racing tactics. 

 The boys all lined up before the races.

 The derby cars :)

 Love this kid so darn much!

 Cars again!

 Still loving on Jack!

 Jacks car getting ready for its first race. Jack was so nervous he wouldn't win anything...we don't quite get the "its just fun to participate" theory yet.

 Watching his car come down the track.

 Not too excited he didn't win that first race.

 At the results table.

 This picture makes me tear up every time. He is so embarrassed and excited at the same time because he just found out that he got second place. Classic Jack. Love this boy!

 Receiving his award for second place in his division. He was so, so proud (So was I!).

 His ribbon with a little metal car on the bottom!

Here is a video after one of his races that he won (it is a complicated procedure and the track is rigged to calculate the time and automatically put it into fancy excel charts so they end up racing in each lane at least once). Owen and Ella were so proud. I love these kids and how much they love each other even if they drive each other crazy!

Owen's Field Trip

We're Back! It's been quite awhile and a lot has happened. Owen got a year older. The kids got sick 47 times. We got lots of snow. We had lots of school. We had lots of Jazzercise. We have had plenty of smiles and a few tears. Nothing life changing has happened but our lives keep on growing and changing (no matter how much I try to stop it!). I don't have a lot of pictures to update but I will post what I have and try to do better about updating...especially with our new cousin so close to making his arrival!

These pictures are from a field trip Owen had a few weeks ago with his preschool class (speaking of school, Owen signed up for KINDERGARTEN last week....WAAAHHHHH!!!!!!). His class did a bowling party and Owen was SO excited. He woke up that morning and got dressed and put his coat and shoes on and stood by the door at 8:30a.m. and the field trip wasn't until 1:30p.m. The pictures do not do any justice to the excitement because He didn't want his picture taken but he had lots of fun!

 Owen's class is a little shy on boys.

 Crazy bowling lover!

 Silly kiddo :)