5 minutes in the car with the boys

Some of you have been in a car with the boys. If you haven't, here is a snapshot from today. Setting: after haircuts headed to play baseball before dinner.

David on phone to Anna: OK, so we'll be back around 5:45.

Max to Olin: Olin, we need to hurry. We only have 56 minutes to play.
(I look at the car clock. It says 5:49).
Max: Daddy, can I have a rice cake?
Me: We're all out, Max.
Max: Can you look?
Me (glancing over at the passenger seat): All out, Max.
Max: But you just went to the store. We probably have some in the trunk.
Me: There are none in the trunk, Max.
Max: Can I look?
Me: Max, you are strapped in a seat and we're driving down the road. How do you expect to look in the trunk?
Max: Oh, PLEASE can I have a rice cake?
Olin: BLUE, Daddy, BLUE.
(There is a toggle switch in the Mini to change the color of LED lights above the dash. I change it to BLUE).
Olin: PURPLE, Daddy. PURPLE.
Max: That's a girl color, Olin. Say Orange.
Olin: ORANGE, Daddy. ORANGE.
(I switch it to Orange).
Max: Daddy, why can't I have a rice cake?
Olin: I got two rice cakes, Max. You only got one.
Max: I had two million and three.

Max's First Pinewood Derby

Max joined the other kids at Stuart Hall for the great Pinewood Derby Race. As you can see from the first heat, some of the kids were a bit older. The girl next two him got first place...

The first heat

The lineup. Max on the left.

Olin proudly holding cars between heats


Max and his car


The second heat. Left car launches off track, Max in Third.

The boys do not want to leave.

Mommy and her boys

Sometimes there is only one person the boys want. And it shows.