Pinewood Derby Time!

I'll admit that I used to think that the whole pinewood derby thing was kind of lame. As I have said before, I was totally clueless about scouts until I actually had one under my care. I don't know why, but I just thought making a car out of a piece of wood and then racing it wasn't that exciting. As soon as I found out the date of the pinewood derby and explained what it was to Austin, I was sold myself! You get to make a cool car with a parent and if you do things right, you might end up doing really well in the race! What could be more fun for a young boy? Lucky for Austin, Jason works in the auto industry and he has had experience with creating with wood lately (updates on basement coming soon!) Austin planned it out and helped Jason carry out the necessary steps to build his car. Jason showed him videos and explained all the science behind what they would do to make his car the fastest they could.

Sanding the car.

 Last night was the practice run. Austin was really excited to go and Erik was too. Unfortunately, the main race is Friday when we will be at Gallimore for the Multicultural Event that we signed up to volunteer as Puerto Rico leads months ago. As this was Austin's first year doing it, I don't think he really minds missing the main race. He had such a good time last night and his car came in second place most of the runs, first and third a couple of times, and fourth one time. They are keeping his car to race it on Friday. Who knows, maybe he'll win a trophy?

Final product!

Today for school, he got to go to Geer School, the one-room  1880's schoolhouse here in our area that all the second graders attend as part of their Plymouth-Canton community history curriculum. Both the girls went, now it was Austin's turn. I was able to leave work a little early and meet him there for lunch. He had a hard boiled egg, homemade bread with butter, apple, homemade ginger cookies, and water. Here's what we were able to pull together for his costume.

Geer school lunch.

They all think the dunce hat is really funny.

What a fun tradition we have here!