happy birthday Jax and congratulations, it floats

For Starters I know it's been a while since I posted. I apologize. I have A LOT of pictures to post so I will do a slide show later, but in the mean time, this is what happened this week.

So, Wednesday was Jacksen's birthday and we got him a lego rescue helicopter complete with a water rescue pod and a powered wench on the helicopter that he said he had been wanting for "a hundred thousand years"....wow, I'm glad we finally got it for him since he waited around till he was oldy-moldy....ANYWAY.... back to the story. What is a lego water rescue pod if it doesn't actually float in water? What are 3 boys to do? (I say three because who do you think headed up this project? yep, Micah.) So when Micah got home from work yesterday, the boys spent a good hour trying to figure out a way to make the lego water rescue pod, which has so many legos on it that it weighed probably a good pound, float. It began with rudimentary methods such as taping foam ear plugs to the door and then flipping each of the doors down facing the water ergo the ear plugs would end up on the bottom "holding" up the vessel. Well that sort of worked but only if you like your rescue pod to be half sinking with water up to the poor lego guys' waists. So it was on to more extreme measures which finally led to the solution. NERF bullets. The BIG ones. They were the only things big enough to keep that baby afloat. So they cut them up and distributed them around the bottom of the raft and VOILA you have a rescue pod that actually floats. [pictures to follow later] Meanwhile dinner got cold while I waited patiently for them to fine tune the floatation device for the raft/pod. And how dare I want to use my bathroom when it is being used to test the buoyancy of a lego pod.