The need for speed

Last week was Bloomfield schools spring break so we had all four kids home all week. How did we fill the time well we filled it with making pinewood derby cars. On Monday after a follow-up appointment to Dreigan being sick again this time he had digestive distress for three days, Drie and Christi stop by the store to pick a few need accessories for the cars while we were there Dreigan saw a kit to make his car look like the bat mobile, so he got it. For the girls we chose decals for their cars which are their favorite stars. That evening we went over to Cathy and Steve's and cut out he cars with Steve's jig saw. Christi was smart and found on the internet templates for the kids so the cut out and traced the shape they wanted their cars to be to make cutting them faster.
All day Tuesday we sanded, painted and decorated cars, by the time scouts came around we all done except wheels. When Christi went to put on Dreigan's wheels they didn't fit. He had insisted that the fenders on the front not go out in front of the car and since he didn't follow directions and line up the axel marks so he cut off to much in the front. Well now we have a problem the wheels won't work and it is against the race rules to move the axles. Solution make a new car.
On wednesday a new car was purchased this time Dreigan had use the coping saw and cut it by hand. He then panited and decorated it again. This time he broke all his weights into little pieces, painted them and glued them on all over on the top. We don't have a router to be able to sink them ( if anyone has one and is willing to help it would be great he needs more weight still). It is a very diffrent looking car but all that hard work came in handy Dreigan came in thrid in the Pack Derby, after the three heats we had to have a run off between him and two other boys who were tied for points with him. Way to go Dreigan! We even had a parent try to say his car wasn't regulation, because it wasn't pretty and winning. What can we say we learned in Pine wood Derby aerodynamic have a lot less to do with the speed than the weight and how it is placed on the car, Naya's car taught us this. Fionna made a wedge covered with Hannah Montanan stickers. Naya made a block covered with princesses stickers. Naya won all her races too, with a block of wood in the sibling open class.
The only other thing we are doing is getting ready to go to San Antonio for 6 days for some fun and to take Drei to see a specialist.

Last happy one month birthday Ahonora.

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