Preparing for the Pinewood Derby, plus friends and Legos

Last Friday I started feeling like I was coming down with a cold, so Saturday was pretty laid back for us. In the evening Nico had another chess tournament. He said he played 4 games and won 3 of them, and also 3 games of "pawn wars" and won all of those. He got a 3rd place trophy. And is indeed excited for next time!

Guy met up with his friend Moreno at Red Robin on Saturday night, and I stayed home and watched a movie! Not a typical Saturday in that we all did something different, but all of us thoroughly enjoyed the things we were doing, so it was still an A+ night.

Sunday after church we stayed after a bit so that Nico's Pinewood Derby car could be cut to his specs. The Pinewood Derby race is this coming Saturday at the church. He drew an outline of how he wanted it cut, and so it was! He wanted it to look like a convertible. Then last night Guy took Nico to the church where they were doing a test run for the cars. He got to paint it, attach the wheels, and add some lead to the bottom to weight it to the max weight allowed.

Tonight we had not just Evelyn over for dinner, but Ivy as well! I made a huge batch of rice and ground beef and a ton of broccoli (Evelyn loves it!) Then I cut up a whole tub of strawberries and they downed all of them.

NOTICE that Guy got NEW glasses!

Then they all played in the clubhouse. 

Then a few other tidbits from our week: Nico drawing. He turned around and said "NNoooooo!!" because he didn't want his picture taken.

We had some snow last week and over the weekend. And yes we still have Christmas lights up! :)

Nico and Evelyn playing Minecraft in the main house.

Nico finally spent his Christmas money and picked a lego out online. He chose a Lego Architecture set, of Berlin. He sorted out each type of piece before he put it together.

The finished product!

I am REALLY enjoying putting together the teeny tiny legos in the Pokemon set we got him for Christmas. He told me they were too hard to put together and didn't mind me doing it. There are 12 pokemon and I've gone through 2 of them so far. 

Nico has been enjoying reading Stick Dog. He finished the 1st book and checked the 2nd book out from the library today. He is reading it in bed right now.

That's all for this week!