If you like to talk to tomatoes, if a squash can make you smile......

Braiden has been going to Kids club on Thursday nights at the C&MA church and last week they had "Veggie Derby". This is when the kids make cars out of vegetables. Braiden and his dad put in a lot of time, thought, and ingenuity in to his car (I had to keep reminding Jeremy that this was a preschoolers car so he needed to keep it simple). They had a lot of fun making it, and it was so fun to watch their little wheels turn in their heads (Jeremy & Braiden). After they finished the car (pictured above), Jeremy got what sounded like a brilliant idea at the time to put the car into the freezer so that it would be hard at the derby. Like I said, that was a great idea in theory but one thing that we didn't anticipate was that the car would have to sit out for about an hour until it was Braiden's turn to roll it down the ramp. By the time Braiden's car got to go, it was leaking a lot of transmission fluid (a.k.a it was defrosting). It made it about a foot off the ramp before it disassembled itself. Braiden was so cute, he loved the part when the car came apart and he jumped up and down in excitement. It was pure joy for him (don't you wish that something like that could make YOU experience that same kind of joy. Oh, to be a innocent child!).

Braiden made it to the finals, so needles to say we had to put the car back together a few times, he ended up getting third in his age group. When the derby was all over I asked Braiden if we could throw his car away (before you think what an mean mom, making him throw it away, it was very mushy and yukky from going down the ramp and defrosting), at first he said "no, he might miss it" and then after a little persuasion he said it was o.k. but we need to build another one soon.

Jeremy and Braiden are already planning how they are going to make next years car.

Down it goes....

Crash.....

Pit stop.