The Bunny Hop

Today was the annual Easter Egg Hunt at the zoo. There was also an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest Bunny Hop.

All participants had to be human. Sorry Mr River Otter.

All participants were required to wear Bunny Ears. Sorry Don.


The record was 3841. Bismarck came up about 500 short of that. Maybe next year.

Struggling to loose a tooth.

Last night at bedtime....he tried and tried
Tonight we went for the big guns, and gave him a crispy Gala apple
It got to be a little tough on him. Once the tears came, he requested that the tooth fairy brings him $2 because of the pain, and then left the room
When he returned, the tears were gone, and so was his tooth!

A quote from Jonathan when I was taking pictures of him wiggling his looth tooth: "You can put the pictures on the blog and call it 'struggling to loose a tooth' ", so I am.

Pinewood Derby 2010

Today was the long awaited Pinewood Derby for Pack 153. It was an exciting day. Every scout received a pretty blue participation ribbon....
One Scout won the award for Best Roadster....

Another Scout won the award for Most Likely to "Go Turbo"....this scout also now hold the track record for fastest race, clocking in at 200.37 mph

Some Scouts won 2 of their 6 races

Another Scout won all 6 races in the preliminaries, and 4 out of six in the Finals...

There was so much anticipation as to who would win each race

Two of the Tiger Cubs received medals for earning 1st and 2nd place respectively in our Den

And only one Scout won the whole entire Derby for Pack 153.

All Scouts had a great time!

New bike

The snow is melting. The sidewalks are visible. The sun is shining. Time to bring out the bikes. Time to buy Megan her new bike. She was just wee bit excited. She wanted a Dora bike with the purple backpack, with the pink Barbie bike with pink purse as her back up. Target only had the purple Disney Princess bike with pink purse, so that is what she got. I had to buy the boxed up version and assemble it myself, since there were none on display. I think I should get an extra reward of some kind for assembling the bike with a very, very, very excited 3 year old "helping" me out.
She has no clue how to pedal forward yet, so I mostly pushed her around the driveway. She was very proud.

50th Anniversary

We went to Fargo this weekend to celebrate my Aunt and Uncle's 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was fun to see family that we haven't seen for a long time. The kids went swimming, we ate at Golden Corral, did some shopping, played Cranium Family, Rummy, Go Fish, and laughed.

This weekend made me realize a few things. We are getting to point in our life where we seem to have more anniversary parties to attend than weddings. Our kids are getting big enough to not need us to swim with them in the pool. Our kids are getting big enough where we need to get a suite for us to be comfortable.

An uneventful update

I have not taken a picture since our trip to Minot/Makoti last weekend. We have been quite boring since then.
I have been teaching and playing some card games with our child who is unable to play alone or entertain himself. He has mastered King's Korner. We stepped it up a notch tonight and played both Gin and Rummy. We had to modify the rules of Rummy a bit, as he can barely handle 7 cards in his hand at the same time. I also taught him a pyramid solitaire game, which he actually played, by himself, for 8 entire minutes.
Our child who prefers to play alone has been playing alone. He doesn't make a peep. I sometimes forget he is around, unless Megan tries to play with him. Then I hear his screaming.
Megan plays with her dolls. She takes her role as Doll Mother very seriously. At bedtime, if one of her 16 billion dolls is missing, she has to find it. She does the ole' sad eye look and says "but my dolly needs her Mommy" if told to go to bed without one.
The kids are all excited for the trip to Fargo this weekend. Every morning we do the countdown.