A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
I have always thought that Chloe looks a lot like Jeremy did as a baby (just in a dress instead). But this is just too funny:
This is Jeremy back in 2008.
And this is Chloe just last night. She does this every time we ask her where her food went (as long as she ate it). So funny. 🙂
Ethan had his first pinewood derby tonight! We’ve spent the past few weeks thinking about how to make his car and he didn’t like any of my ideas. He had his heart set on making a bat-mobile (Kyle recently bought the lego Batman game and since then Batman has been Ethan’s new obsession). I honestly didn’t know how we could pull off a bat-mobile but in the end we just handed Ethan the hack saw and said ‘go to it’. He ended up cutting it out mostly by himself (Kyle did help a little after Ethan had given it a good try), he sanded it down and painted it. Then he cut out a Batman symbol and some windows that he drew and glued them to the car, he even put wings on the back. Kyle helped with putting the wheels on and it was set to go.
We got to the church early so his car could be weighed in and it was a bit under weight so they gave him some weights to put on it if he chose (which he did, so he stuck them on the underside of the car). Then we watched them set up the track, they explained how things would work and the racing began. Each boy’s car went down the track 6 times, their slowest speed was thrown out and the 5 other speeds were totaled up to get each boy’s final score.
I think Ethan’s car did pretty well. In the end looking at all the boys final scores they were really competitive. I mean one hundredth of a second faster and you could have moved up by one place, they were really close. Ethan ended up placing 17th out of 22 boys. Not bad, and I am glad to report that he wasn’t as upset as I was expecting him to be. He had a good time, and now we have a better idea of what to expect for next year. And I’m really glad that I can say my son made his car by himself (with only minimal help) and he wasn’t one of the boys who had their dad make it for him! 😉
Sitting on my dresser, I have this small picture frame with a picture of Kyle and myself while we were dating. Chloe really likes coming into my room and taking that picture frame to carry it all around the house with her. She will come up to me to show me that she has the picture and with the biggest smile she says “Daddy!” I agree with her and say “yes that’s daddy, then I ask who is that next to daddy?” And she just answers back with “Daddy!” So I cover the side of the picture with Kyle and ask “Who is that?” and MOST of the time she still answers back with “Daddy!” What about me???? I’m in that picture too! On a very rare occasion, she will admit that “Mommy” is in that picture too. But most of the time all she sees is Daddy!
Laurel and I started building these shelves when the family all came over for the 4th of July last year. They are FINALLY finished, and I am SO excited!!!
Some of the rows are pretty tight, but hopefully that won’t be much of an issue. The shelves are slanted so that I can load cans from the back, but take cans for use from the front, so we are always using the oldest cans first. There isn’t much room in the storage room now, so the whole layout is going to need to be rearranged. But we were going to do that after the basement is finished anyways. 🙂 Now it’s SO much easier for me to look and see what we are out of. Love it.
Referring to worcestershire sauce, Dinah (age 3) says “It smells deelicious! But it doesn’t taste very good.”
Later Kyle made a comment referring to the same above mentioned 3 year old “She is allergic to obedience. It makes her break out in a bad case of the naughties.”
Made me laugh.