Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year I had a great start to the day. Jacob made me breakfast in bed: pancakes, eggs, bacon and coffee! Jack got up early to make me chocolate mouse! It was very good but the best part was how proud Jack was about making it. Amelia made me a coupon book, a small card, a large card (at least 3 feet tall) and a sign saying "We love you so much!"
And of course the best part of the Mother's Day is there was very little whiny, arguing and talking. Yay!

Jacob

Jacob at age 12 has the same size feet as me.

Electric Moped

So for 10.00 dollars the kids scored an electric moped from Dad's coworker. It needed new batteries, which we had and that's about it. It can go about 15 miles an hour for a range of 8 miles on a single charge. So all and all it's pretty darn awesome. The first couple of days it was up and running the kids were fighting like crazy over who got to ride it and who had the longest turn. So we (I) decided that the day a kid walks Skipper is the day that kid gets to ride the moped. Surprisingly they were all on board with that idea.
Now I have to say watching them speed along on this moped scares me a little. I am sure one of them is going to break a bone riding it or get hit by a car by the end of the summer. But they enjoy it and always wear a helmet so I will just pray hard and let God take care of the rest!

Fun Activities

During our "stay at home" time, the kids have been coming up with ways to occupy their time. Here a couple examples: 

1. We got the badminton set from Myrna since she was cleaning out her garage. It was a lucky score for us.
2. And rolling on a wine barrel. We got a barrel from our other neighbor Adrian for a storage container. Before we cut it in half the kids spent several days rolling around on it like a circus performer. They were kinda mad we cut it. 

Go Kart

So during this very long "stay at home order" Jacob has kindle a passion for fabricating and modifying vehicles. It started with taking apart is electric go-kart to see if he could fix, it hadn't been working for a while. He figured out the engine just couldn't be fixed soooo.... he decided to take the engine off to put a gas powered one on the frame. Then he figured out a gas powered engine would not fit on the frame sooooo…. he decided he wanted a gas powered go-kart frame so he could put a gas powered engine on that! Well apparently it is hard just to find a go-kart frame. Lucky for Jacob Dad's friend was selling gas powered go-kart!
Between Jacob and Jack pooling their money together they are in the process of getting this go-kart to run. The thing needs a chain guard and new tires to run but together with Dad they are learning about changing the oil and all the other parts of. Despite the obversion all three boys now have about finding parts and plans for the go-kart it is cool to see them have something to do that they enjoy doing together.