The pinewood derby was last week and below is a picture of Parker's car. Both Parker and Trevor spent lots of time on it, and I probably don't have to tell you who did the most. Parker designed it, cut most of it out on the bandsaw and picked the color, and Trevor did the rest. He tried to get Parker to sand, but Parker would sand for a minute or two and give up. Not the most fun for an 8-year-old! Trevor's a perfectionist when it comes to these kinds of things, and he fretted over that thing like crazy. It made
me crazy!
When it was all said and done, Parker took second place. The kid who won first place is a 10-year-old, is the Cubmaster's son and, as we're told, won last year too. They must be doing something right. But all the boys had fun. For the refreshments, someone took the time to make Twinkies into little cars complete with gummi Lifesavers for wheels and gummy bears placed into a small cutout in the Twinkie "driver's seat." Very cute. Wish I had picture of those, but I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I was just trying not to eat them...
4 comments:
That is a really COOL looking car. I think he should have won for something even if it wasn't the fastest. We'll be in touch with you Julie when Erin gets in town! :)
They actually gave all the boys an award. Parker got "Most Futuristic Car." That was a good award for his car!
Hey Julie, I laugh as I read this because we had the same experience! Dad created a really cool car, tried to have Carsten sand it, so he could say he worked on it, Carsten got bored two minutes into sanding...!! Pretty funny. What really cracked me up was Reed pretending NOT to be one of those typical Pinewood Derby dads! He's taking the car to work with him on his route, having it weighed at a high-tech fabrications place, getting a special weight made, etc.! Then he tells the officials NOT to give Carsten a prize for it, because he did too much of the work! Oh please! Just like you, ALL the boys got a prize! And we all KNOW the dads did most of the work! Anyway, next year we know to put the weight in the back and on top--those were the winners in our derby!
cool car! i hope we can come up with something fancy like that for mac when he's a scout.
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