Wow

Grace has become more independent in her dress. She definitely knows what she wants to wear. I thought this outfit was pretty crazy. She wanted to wear her tutu, her bracelets, barrettes in her hair and piggy tails.

Pinewood Derby

We held our Pinewood Derby this week. We only had 3 scouts and 2 upcoming scouts participate but the boys had a lot of fun. Jack and Kade made cars as usual (we always make 3 cars every year) so they were able to race since our numbers were so small. Kade was so excited. He was hopping up and down all over the place.

I guess I didn't take a picture of Kade with his car. It was pretty cool. It was black with a purple stripe in the middle. He also had a cool fin on the back. Grace got a hold of his car at the weigh-in and threw it. The fin broke but luckily we had super glue.

Josh's car is the green one and Jack's is the black one.
They all had a blast. After it was over, the kids all ran around racing their cars.

Baseball

I really did a terrible job of taking pictures of the boys at baseball this year. Here are a few.

This is Josh's All Star team.

Kade at bat. Kade struggled with hitting this year, but he did a great job in the field. At his last game, he asked his coach if he could catch (I'm sure it's because both his brothers are catchers). He had a lot of fun wearing the catcher's gear.
Josh loved playing catcher this year. He is also played shortstop, 1st base, and pitcher.
Jack also played catcher a lot for his team. When he wasn't catching he was shortstop or 2nd base.

Here is Jack's All Star team (they didn't have their uniforms yet when this was taken).

They took 2nd place in a tournament. Pretty exciting. Josh is also on an all star team. We have tournaments every weekend now. It's too bad that the boys don't play in the same cities. Tom and I get to divide and conquer.

End of the Year Awards

Here is Kade with his teacher, Ms. Cain. She was so sweet and kind to Kade. He had a hard time adjusting with our move and his teacher was really good to him.

Jack and Josh both received multiple awards.
Jack had the 3rd top AR points in 6th grade. Not too shabby considering we moved here in January.

Little Climber

Grace has decided that she likes to do things herself. She watched the boys get into my Cub Scout candy the other day so she decided that she needed some too. She pushed the chair over to the counter, climbed up, then got into my upper cabinet to pull down all the candy. She then dumped the whole bag out to find the sucker she wanted. I have caught her doing this a lot lately.