Pinewood Derby Races

Cub Scouts Pinewood Derby Race

Anthony's Cub Scouts Pack had their pinewood derby race this weekend and both Anthony and Faith built cars to race.  Anthony was not too excited about it at first, but he did pick out a complicated design (a lightening bolt) and after I cut the wood he helped to decorate it and put the weights on it.  We didn't do much in the way of performance testing and tuning, so we were all very excited when Anthony won 3rd place!!

 Anthony's car was the fastest in a 
couple of heats, with a average time of 2.932 seconds!  

Here's one of the races that he won...

Faith had so much fun making her derby car, which was a boat with 

Patrick (from SpongeBob) in it.  Unfortunately we were late 

getting back for Faith's race and missed it completely, 

although that might have been good since she came in last place 

(I think Patrick was a bit of a wind drag and I

 heard her car got stuck on the track a couple times!)

Anthony and Faith with their cars and his trophy

Surgery Decision Tomorrow

Faith seems to be mostly better - her fever is gone, and certainly well enough that we would send her back to school, but she's still coughing during the day a bit and I would like to have either the pediatrician or her pulmonologist listen to her lungs and let us know whether they think she's cleared up.  I've listened with my stethoscope at home and can't hear anything, but I didn't check it the day they said they could hear stuff.  Wish I did so I would know how obvious it was and how much it's improved. 

Can't believe we are this close to these plans and just can't be sure yet whether it's a go or not.  I would feel better about getting on a plane on Tuesday if the docs here think she sounds good.  And I'll give the surgeon's office another call and let them know and make sure that is enough for them.   I know there will still be a chance they could change their minds if we get there and she sounds worse, but I just hate the thought of spending $400 on airfare and be told we shouldn't have come!

I will definitely post an update tomorrow night to let you know what the final decision whether we get on the plane on Tuesday!

Robin