Amelia

The dreaded phrase, "My head itches." On the way home from Jack's soccer game today Amelia tells us. Oh geez here we go.
As soon as we got home I start combing through her hair and yup its lice. The thing that upsets Amelia the most is that I call the Mitchells to tell them not to come over for dinner. Amelia was really looking forward to sharing and playing with Gabby and Cami.
Of course we drag all the bedding down, everything she has touched. Dan goes to the store for lice shampoo. It takes me about two hours to comb all the nits and lice out of her hair, its pretty bad. Amelia was great through the whole thing. She sat nice while I combed her out. Let me shampoo her hair twice after finding move live bugs.
All of us doused ourselves with the lice shampoo just in case. Here is hoping this takes care of it.

PInewood Derby

The boys had their first Pinewood Derby today. They created their cars themselves; they were very excited. Now we let them do must of the work. Uppa shaped the block of wood for them but they sanded it, colored it, hammer the wheels in and sanded the wheels. I did help by sanding the wheels a bit.

At the derby both of the cars came in last every heat they were in. The wheels wobbled, the cars weaved down the lanes. It quickly became a defeating experience. Jack was bummed he didn't win and said so several times. Jacob realized his fate by the middle of the first race and turned jokester says, "I'm dead."

As much as I wanted them to win or at least not be last it was a good learning experience: learning how to deal with disappointment; learning how to support each boy as they processed the disappointment.

Jack

Jack came downstairs and announced, "I am changing!" Ok... then Amelia comes down next and stands by Jack. Jack continues, "I am going to change. I am now going to be nice to Amelia." Amelia in turns, "Yes! Best Friends!" and then gives Jack a big hug (Jack looks shocked).
Now I am glad he has decided to change but I think it had to do with Jacob not wanting to play with him.

Amelia

The other day Amelia wanted me to play with her. Now I knew I should, and I know I should play with her more often, but playing pretend with her toys is just about the most mind numbing thing I can think of. It literally makes me want to go to sleep after about 10 minutes. But after all this said I did play with her.

This is how it went:
We started with two Barbies that lived in her new Barbie pop-up camper. The Barbies had a couple of princess pets to take care of. One Barbie (mine) was a firefighter that went to work. Then the Barbies went on a great treasure hunt to "find their destiny." We recovered several "magical musical instruments" each leading us closer to "our destiny." We then went to the ice palace to find the princess pets mom's (bigger versions of princess pets). There we use the magical mist (humidifier) to turn into fairies to fly. The Barbies had to help the mom princess pets find their babies before the moon set so they wouldn't stay humans. The Barbies then flew to "Pixie Hallow" (other side of the bed) to gain the help of Elsa the ice queen. After a show of fairy talents (Barbie's doing various tricks). We then went back to the ice palace and magic mist to rejoin the mom palace pets; followed by gathering the baby palace pets from the Barbie pop-up camper to reunited them.

The story was a continuous fable adventure that took us every few minutes to another location around and over her bed. My brain was still put into a semi-coma state but the story line was entertaining.

**Note my participation in this was basically sitting there listening and watching; following behind with my Barbie to each scene.

Jacob

The other day in the car Jacob was talking to Jack about how he wonders about how other people think or if what they see the same as him. Jack was quite there in his depth of understanding but they did start comparing the colors they saw along the road.
Jacob said he also wonders what Ginny thinks about, about what guinea pigs think about all the time.
Very curious fellow that Jacob is; I pray he continues to consider what other people see and think as he grows up.