Austin Gets Second Place

Austin entered the science fair this year. I know he is just a kindergartener but Chris and I both love science so I couldn't wait for him to get started. He has already shown interest in science himself so I thought it would be a good father-son project. He did all the work himself. I gave him the idea and we talked about the different steps but he really did a lot of the work himself. The day of the science fair I went in the morning to drop off his science project and found out that he had to be at the school all day...he usually goes to afternoon kindergarten. The judging was in the morning and he needed to be there to answer questions about his project. So by the time I got back to the school he was miserable and said that he wished he had never done a science project. He just wanted to go home. The award ceremony came and his name was called for second place out of 10 other Kindergarten projects. He finally got a smile on his face. I asked him later if he was glad he did it and, of course, he answered yes. He is already talking about what he is going to do next year.