Thursday, April 26, 2012

Pinewood Derby 2012

We’ve officially entered into the world of cub scouts!!

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I think Josh is really enjoying it and is pretty gung-ho to work on anything we’ll let him!

Yesterday was the Pinewood Derby.

But the prep work began a couple weeks ago.  Darrin was pretty good to let Josh do everything except the sawing.  We bought a new saw, and Darrin proceeded to saw with the car clamped to the kitchen table.  He claimed it was only place to do it.  We now have a big slit in the table.  I’ve always hated that table anyway.

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Josh sanded and sanded and then spray painted.

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His car is letter “O.”  I think he was pretty happy with how it turned out.

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Josh got awarded his Bobcat award!  Go Josh!

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Then the races began! 

Josh won his first race and that was about it.  His wasn’t the very slowest, so Josh (and Darrin) felt good about that :)

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He had lots of fun watching all the races anyway!

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In the end he won the Cubmaster’s Choice Award!  He’s already planning next year's car and what he can do to make it faster! 

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1 comment:

jamie t. said...

very fun! We have a while before we start that. I bet you are excited for the change of pace a little girl will bring.