Building a Soap Box racer

Since we had a bunch of wood leftover from the basement work, we've been using them to build shoe racks and shelves(we had to buy some more, of course). Alan found a cool little building project for him and my dad to work on. A soap box racer for the kids!

They used all the training wheels from the boys' old bikes and all the 2x4 from all the basement leftover wood. I was quite impressed with it and the kids loved it!

The building crew

Nearly done

The kids approve!!

Cody Completes Kumon Level 3a for Maths

Cody has completed level 3a of Kumon Maths, addition up to 3.  Now onto the next level.

Another level done

Tyler graduates to the next level of swim team

Tyler has just graduated from developmental to advanced developmental swim team.  The only downside is for the parents as he now has to swim 3 times a week instead of 2.  Cody tries out soon for swim team

Tyler graduates

Tyler passes Kumon Reading Level CII

Tyler passed his Kumon Reading level CII today.  Looks like he still cant spell Kindergarten!! Not to mention he needs to work on Capitalization and punctuation..

Good job!!

Cody learns to wink

Cody decided that he was going to learn to wink. This is his first attempt. In his mind, he thought he could wink. After i showed him his picture of his winking, he decided he needed some help.

This is him winking

This is him "helping" himself to wink

This is Tyler showing him how it's done

This is Tyler teaching him how to do it! HAHAHAHAHAA!!!

I think this is going to take a while.. so, I'll try to periodically do some update on the winking progress.. :)

Superior Downhill Mile 2014 - July 4th Run

I signed up for the Superior Downhill Mile again this year, and despite my lack of training I figured it was only a mile and it is all downhill.

I managed a time of 5 minutes 32 seconds, good enough for 50th place out of 282 and only a couple of seconds slower than last year, so generally a good performance.

Just need to work out how to run faster downhill!!

Crossing the finish line