The lights are hot. The track is set. The cars are lined up, their paint jobs shiny, their wheels still dripping with graphite. The Cub Scout Pinewood Derby was held Wednesday. There was amazingly little drama. The parents even behaved themselves! : ) 
Paris did fine--he won about about as much as he lost. But he got a trophy and that was really all he could ask for.
Really I think Paris enjoyed making the car more than anything. He and Brian worked on it almost every weekend for the past month. We even used his enthusiasm to motivate him to do better in school. We told him he needed 5 A's to race on Wednesday. He had 4 by Tuesday night, but we woke Wednesday morning to a snow day. He quickly remedied the situation by proposing to practice multiplication in place of the 5th A. Lo and behold, he got an A on his weekly multiplication test when he went back to school.
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