Pinewood Derby!

Saturday Maverick participated in the cub scouts pinewood derby. He had to take a block of wood and turn it into a speedy little car. Since his daddy lacks in the skills of a carpenter we enlisted the help of Jen's brother Tony to help with it. He and Maverick decided on a design and he took the wood to the saw. After that it was up to Maverick to sand it down good and file down his axles for his wheels. We then painted the car cherry red, and with mama's help put on some lightning bolts and the #50. You may ask why 50? We asked Maverick that and he said... "well it's half way to 100 and I like it." Can't argue with that! Last thing to do was to put some weight on it. We thought we were at 4 ounces and didn't want to get to close to the 5 ounce limit, so we took it in... the "official scale" had it at an anorexic 3.5 ounces. Odds were not on his side at this point to win. He ended up in the 3 spot in each race he was in. He was head to head with one of his school buddies and said "look we're twins!" He enjoyed it a lot... win or lose it was a great experience for him!