You win some, You lose some!

We will start out with the losing side of things. This was Austin's first year in the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. We were actually naive enough to think that the kids actually built their own cars so Austin did a lot of his own work...although it is really hard to cut it out without the help of an older person. He designed, sanded, spray-painted, and painted the car mostly by himself. He learned a lot and we are very proud of him. BUT when we got to the pinewood derby, we knew his car was not going to fair well against all the "dads" cars. They literally were sitting around talking about what they did to "their" cars. It was kind of funny. But we just had a FHE lesson on having good sportsmanship and so we felt like this was going to be a great night to put it into practice. He placed 14th out of 15. Yikes! He actually handled it very well.

Now for the winning end of things! Austin did the science fair again this year. He did it when he was in Kindergarten as well. In Kindergarten he placed 2nd at the school and 1st at Regionals. This year he placed 1st at the school and 2nd at Regionals. I am so proud of him because he did all (well, most of) the work himself. He had to keep a daily log. He took the pictures, learned how to use Microsoft Word and transfer and resize pictures. He even learned how to use a cricket to cut letters. He was very happy, especially because he won $10 for winning regionals.