The Pinewood Derby!!!

Last Saturday was the Annual Pinewood Derby & Corben's first time racing.  How excited was Corben for this race?  Well...about a year ago he was already planning his designs and got a test track as a gift.  He designed the car and then Ryan helped him cut it out of the block of wood.  Corben sanded it and painted it all by himself (I put the tape down to make the stripe, but that's it.).  Ryan then took the car to work & put the weight in the back so it would be just right.  Corben was SO excited the day of the race.   The wheels on his car somehow missed getting graphite on them  and he lost his first 2 races (the second one by less than half an inch) before we realized the problem.  They were nice and let us fix the problem and things went well from there.  Corben was a REALLY good sport.  He was really excited about all of his wins and handles his loses well.  In the end he won 2 awards: 3rd place for Originality & 3rd place for SPEED!!  He was on top of the world.  He ran over and hugged Ryan and said, "I won 8 races!!".  I am so proud of him.  I know he's already looking forward to next years race!