Skylers new glasses or four

Skyler got new glasses this year. We started third grade with glasses and eye exam (95$). Two weeks later Skyler goes to the corn maze with cub scouts, loses his glasses. I wait 2 weeks hoping they will find them, they knew my name by the end of those two weeks, I had called so often. Bought new glasses, but the sale was over that we had gotten before (78$). Shay made him wear one of those glasses thingys that go around your neck so he wouldn't lose them again. Super nerdy. Skyler broke both arms off wrestling with his dad with his glasses around his neck. Great because it is free to get them fixed because we paid for breakage insurance. Shay said, "boy those are like gold you better not lose them or I am pawning your game cube to buy you new ones". Next day, gone. I had taken the nerdy glasses thingy off because I didn't like the way it looked and hey he broke them with that thing on anyway. So I waited two weeks to see if they showed up, no luck. So I took him to a new place (2 pair 85$). He had one pair come in a week before the other, before we had even picked up the second pair, you guessed it, the first, or third however you look at it, gone. So I went to the school, looked everywhere, the same lady helping us from lost pair 2, found pair 2, but not pair 3. I was just happy as a jaybird that we had found some. The next week Skyler found pair 3 on the bus. So now we have 3 pairs, the corn maze glasses never recovered. But we have made it through 1 whole month with out losing another pair, or maybe I haven't paid attention. Either way I am happy.

The Twins Makeup fiasco

I know if it is quiet for too long to go looking.... well the last time that happened I came upon this. Just to let you know what they are capable of, when I find that they have destroyed or mixed my mascara with the lipstick and there is no salvaging the eyeshadow, it is a relief. They are both alive and the bathroom or some other room is not overflowing with water. I know it sounds sad, but after Elly hitting Jane in the back of the head with a hammer or Elly poking Jane in the face with a surgical steel super sharp knife, which ended up in my foot (don't ask), or them flooding the bathrooms (yes that is plural), it is nice to know that a little soap and some new makeup fixes the whole scenario. I know right, twins are really great.

The Pinewood Derby

So we experienced our first Pinewood derby. I had great ideas to have the coolest best looking car around, but Skyler refused to let me help, so he painted it black and smeared different color paint all over it and named it the stain. As you can imagine I was a little annoyed and tried not to look connected to the stain while at the race.

Shay of course wanted to buy the 30$ wheels so they could guarantee a win, but I am way too cheap to let him do that. So he read everything he could online and worked hours on the darn thing. Shays dad told him to make it weigh a little over five ounces and they would just let you go. Well that wasn't in the days of digital scales, because Skylers car weighed in at 5.1 and they said fix it. So Shay had the drill and began to remove some weight via putting holes in the bottom of the car. Well after about 18 holes in the botttom we finally got it to weigh in at 5 ounces. Well shay decides he needs to add more graphite because it has to be all gone. Well when he does it weighs in at 5.1 again, so we had to add 8 more holes before we finally got it back down to 5. I renamed the car the honeycomb because of all the holes. So to the races.... Skylers car did great. He beat out 6 other cars and ended up tied for 3rd. The race was so close they couldn't call it, but ended up giving it to the other boy (I think because he had a cooler car) But Skyler was a great sport, especially considering how close he had come to bringing home a trophy. His best friend is the one who beat him. Good times, Shay is already prepping for next year. We will conquer then, I am sure of it.