Tuesday night was the Pinewood Derby. He worked hard at designing and building his car. He sure was proud of it. He made it all by himself. It started with a design he drew on a peice of paper and developed into a great pinewood derby car. He did have a little parental guidance when it came to cutting and painting it. Jake assisted with the saw, and I showed him how to control a can of spray paint, which is my specialty. Once we got to the church and the car was weighed, pennies were taped on to make it a bit heavier. It was quite the stiff competition racing against the other cars and Orin didn't get first place but he didn't get last place either. Orin had to practice his good sportsmanship because he wanted to win soooo badly (he mentioned before we left that he had butterflies in his stomach) and it was hard when he didn't win a lot of the heats. He definately should be proud of his attitude and his car.
Orin is my reader. He loves to read. In fact, he is often found "sneak reading" at night when he should be sleeping. This week he finished the last book in the Harry Potter series. He started the first one several months ago and said he wanted to finish all of them by the time the new movie comes out. He did it! He took AR test on all of them and passed them all with flying colors so we know he understood the books. Currently he has 190 AR points. (That is tons and tons and tons.) He has a few individual books lined up to read next but when he finishes those, he wants to start on the Narnia books.
Notice there are only 6 books in the stack....Adia, my sweet scatterbrain, has misplaced #2. She is ALWAYS misplacing things. It drives me crazy!
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CONGRATULATIONS on the derby race. Winning isn't the most important thing about entering a contest although its hard when you wanted to win so badly. I am proud of you showing such good sportsmanship. That looks like an awful big stack of hard books that you read. You have to be a good reader to be able to understand them. I don't know when the movie is scheduled but looks like you finished in plenty of time.
I am speechless that Orin read all of the HP books already. That is so awesome.
Designing, cutting, and painting your own pinewood derby car! Impressive!
Congratulations to both boys!!
Wow! I am SO impressed! REALLY! Speachless! The stack of books are impressive. The car looks totally awesome! I am amazed! Good work Orin!
That car looks awesome! Way to go Orin. He is such a stinkin' cutie pie! I just want to pinch his adorable little cheeks. He is getting more and more handsome by the minute!
Way to go Orin! I can't bealive how big he is, when I saw him last, he was a little kid! I love the Harry Potter books and 190 points is a bunch!! I hate to loose, it is one of the hardest things to do in the world but you know Babe Ruthe struck out 1330 time in the regular season plus 30 in the world series alone! You have to learn a lot from not winning.
Is that the Cowboys on the derby car?
ALRIGHT GO COWBOYS!!!!
Way to go Orin. I just finished the Chronicles of Narnia myself and highly recommend them. Great set of books.
Orin, you're awesome! You read so many books you are starting to look a lot like Harry Potter himself! You might not have won the derby, but I'll bet you took first prize on the best lookin' car there!
Orin, what a good looking car. The Price family LOVES pinewood derby's and if you need any help we know a little secret on placing the weights on the car and we can help you next year, if you want.
I have finished reading the Harry Potter books just a while ago. I love those books. Good job.
Another really good book to read for his age:
Robert Levey "Escape From Exile" It was my favorite book growing up and the first "novel" I read all they way through that was not an assignment. If he likes fantasy and sword fighting and kings and queens and mythical animals, he hill love this one!
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