Well, we're finally here. Scouting. With Jonah's 8th birthday came parties, a baptism & his much-anticipated scouting debut. For the first month of scouting, he had 0 meetings. They did have 1 meeting scheduled, but it was canceled due to a massive outbreak of the flu. So last Thursday was his first Scouting event...the monthly pack meeting/Pinewood Derby. Here he is right before the meeting began:
He looked so proud and grown-up carrying the scouting flags at the beginning of the meeting. Then they weighed and adjusted the cars, and here he is showing off his little number:
He could hardly wait to test her out. Unfortunately, he lost all four heats he raced in. I guess he needs graphite for the tires next time. It was pretty bad... after all that excitement, he was crushed to lose every race.
But Jonah was cheered by his trophy...best craftmanship (which was extra special since he did design the car himself.) And he was ecstatic about learning to tie knots at tonight's meeting. Good thing kids are such resilient creatures!
3 comments:
Bradley had a similar start to scouting also, 1 meeting and then summer time hit and nothing for 2 1/2 months! We are back on track now and he does seem to enjoy it but we haven't had our derby yet and I know he will totally be into that! Way to go Jonah for doing it yourself, I wish everyone followed the rules.
Way to go Jonah! We have had similar experiences. On a random trip to the woodworking store, we saw books on making pinewood derby cars. Despite my initial dislike of the idea, we bought one book and it had a lot of great ideas in it. We used it to teach some principles of design and aerodynamics and let the kids design their cars and do the work (with some help). They did much better, and we always cheer no matter who is racing! Daniel says to tell you he won second place (he's very persistent).
Congratulations to Jonah!!! Joshua is eagerly anticipating that magical 8th birthday - for the very same reasons :) Down to 1.5 years to go, now!
I was a Den Leader for Scouts 3 years ago (I try to forget the experience!) and our Pinewood Derby wasn't quite that bad, but there were a couple of dads that were way more in to it than the boys were!
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