Today was the Pinewood Derby and the Blue and Gold luncheon. C and I "finished" his car last night by attaching the wheels. Fortunately, the pack had two workshops to work on the cars... with other people supplying the saws, paint, and other key equip..or we would have never gotten that far. We weighed in when we arrived and the car was only half the required weight. Again, the pack bailed us out by having extra weights. I apparently used the wrong glue, as it took forever to dry--and wasn't much better than tacky when we finally were the last ones to check in our cars. C ended up 7th out of 11 in his den. Not too bad given our car construction skills. He seemed happy with the car though which is all that matters. I felt a bit guilty knowing how much my dad always helped me with my car and how C was getting royally ripped off by my minimal abilities. At least the wheels stayed on until after the race! And next year, we'll know about the need for weights... C also helped clean up afterwards and did quite a lot without being asked or being bribed with incentives. When the other boys who were "helping" started to fight over brooms, mops, etc., C stuck to his job and stayed out of the bellyaching. I was very proud of him.
C and I also finished the Dinosaur Lego set we got him for Xmas. He did almost all the work himself, I mostly just identified the pieces that were needed next and handed them to him. And by the end, he was finding the right pieces too.
Our excitement this evening is T and M going to the hospital. M has something shiny up her right nostril. T couldn't get it out. The dr's office advised us that only a pediatric emergency room would have the right equip to get it out and we needed to do it asap before it got lodged in further or got sucked back into a lung. She stuck a bead up her nose in preschool a few weeks ago. Fortunately, they saw her do it and were able to get it out with a tweezer. It's unclear how long this object has been up there. I thought I saw something earlier in the week but forgot to mention it to T...
Lil E is walking holding onto fingers. Sometimes she'll do it holding onto one hand only. And she'll stand for a few seconds on her on. But if you try to get her to move between Mommy and Daddy, she'll just sit down. She's still keeping us up quite a bit at night which is a partial rationale for our lack of energy to update the blog frequently (ie, never getting around to posting Xmas pictures). Argh. Otherwise, she's doing well. She adjusted to preschool well; within a week and a half had stopped crying when we dropped her off and now seems fine with being handed over to her teachers.
Lil E's getting tired of sitting on my lap as I type so I'll try to put her to bed.
10:50 update. T called to say she and M are on their way home. It was another bead, fortunately, rather than the screw we had feared. M got through it just fine and kept the nurses entertained with her questions.
