AWANA Grand Prix!

This year, Tim decided to buy Caleb a derby car to put together for the AWANA Grand Prix. I don't think either of us realized all of the tools that would be necessary to construct his car. So we asked my dad to help Caleb with it while we were gone for a day. They were able to carve out the shape they wanted and even started sanding. Caleb was so excited to show it off and show me all the different grades of sandpaper he had to use on his car. So we brought it home to finish sanding and to paint. Our little racer decided on bright orange and mommy helped put some cool eyes on.

The finished car

Car #100 (He put heart stickers on for the zeroes... haha)

The track

Caleb's group, the Sparks, got to go first. Mr. Karrels was doing little interviews of the kids while other AWANA leaders were lining up the cars on the track. He asked Caleb if he had any help putting his car together and his response was, "yes." Some of the kids were asked if they had helped at all or if their dad or someone else did all of the work. Oh the honesty of young kids. haha!

Sparks get to go first!

Mini interviews with Dave aka Mr. Karrels

 VIDEO: Caleb's orange car racing

(From our view, it's in the far left lane)

The scoreboard -- Caleb kept coming in 3rd for his heats

Heat #3 -- Can you see his bright, orange car?

I totally missed getting the cars in the picture

In the end, we're not sure what place Caleb took. There were probably 14 cars in his division and after the 3rd heat, he was in 5th so his little car did pretty well -- better than we had thought it might do! Good job, Caleb!

Not the most enthusiastic photo -- lol -- but he got a participation ribbon