Pinewood Derby

JR is working about half this weekend. The boys and I are just hanging out, waiting for a snow storm that is moving in. The timing is perfect, because we are starting to see lots of grass. I am sure this is the warmest January on record. I bet we had 10-15 days over 40.

Today was the long awaited Pinewood Derby for cub scouts. I knew it was a big deal, but seeing it is a different story. Last night I took B's car to weigh it in. It cannot be over 5 ounces and guess what, ours was 5.3 ounces. It took me about 15 minutes to drill holes on the underside to get it at an 5 even. I was amazed at the handful of men I saw that did not even have scouts, but showed up with a car for the open class. They would proudly unwrap their car and put it on the scale. Some men putting in hours and hours. Our pack has the longest track in the state. Quite impressive.

All the trophies....

Every car races in each of the four lanes, times are instantly displayed on the screen and then after each division, standings instantly displayed. We placed 9th out of 13. Worth a blue ribbon though. We got third place in this race (B is the one on the left...)
All and all the boys had a good time and we know more of what to expect next year.

Yesterday the boys were up playing in the playroom. I heard JB start crying. Jbird told me he had fallen and hit his head. I had some stuff on the stove boiling that needed immediate attention, so ran downstairs. By the time I got back up stairs, poor JB had a lot of blood everywhere. Could not figure out where it came from. Got him cleaned up and then saw his tongue. He had obviously bit it when he fell. It was nasty, he could put his finger in it. I know mouth wounds heal pretty quickly and even if they did want to put stitches in, would probably mean anesthesia. Our doctor was not available, so ran him down to the local Urgent Care just to get it checked out and for them to look at his ears (wondering if he had an ear infection). Well, after waiting 1 hour and 45 minutes, we finally saw the nurse practitioner for all of 4 minutes (and $109-thank goodness for insurance)! She did confirm another ear infection and told me the tongue should heal fine. (Later that day was still not convinced so took JB over to a friend's house who is a nurse so she could take a look). She concurred and suggested salt water rinse to try to keep it clean. Of course I had to take a picture...kind of gross so if you don't want to see it below, close out the page now!

Here is his little tongue..disregard the food in and around his mouth. It does not seem to bother him to eat, which is good. Will probably be amazed how quickly it heals....at least I hope so.