This Pinewood Derby car brings our count to an even dozen! Yes, Theo has carved, sanded, painted, sanded again, glued and polished TWELVE of these cars with his 4 boys over the course of 8 years!
Carumba!
Rex designed and honed this gem. With reserved excitement, he told me that he hoped that he would be in at least the top eight (not sure where that number came from).
As we arrived at the Derby, we discovered that not only were we quite a bit over the weight limit, but that there were also no tools provided this year. Theo made a frantic dash to a nearby Lowes to grab a couple of supplies including the essential graphite for the wheels. We got everything fixed up, on weight and ready to go in the nick of time.
Then, just as we were awaiting the first races to begin, Corbin texts to let us know that he is about to race in the mile. Thinking it was going to be much later in the evening, we hadn't anticipated the need to divide our forces for the day. Nonetheless, we rolled with it. Theo made a quick exit to the track meet while I stayed to cheer on Rex in our last Pinewood Derby.
With the computerized track, we had no idea where Rex fell in the overall standings as his car zoomed down the track. He won only one heat. However, because they go by average time, he was delighted when they announced his name as the third place overall winner out of about 40 cars! Yay! Way to go Rex!
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