Drew and the Science Fair.

Drew went to the District Science Fair last week. For reals. I can honestly say, we did not see it coming. You see, we have a few rules around here regarding science fairs in general. They are as follows...

1. No science fair project may be started on until the night before said project is due...preferably after 8:00pm.
2. The project can only be agreed upon reluctantly after every other project has been nixed by Mom ("too expensive", "too much work", "not enough access to a world class laboratory", etc...)
3. No project may require checking the progress of anything over a period of days (or heaven forbid...weeks!), therefore plant or mold experiments are completely out of the question. 
4. Data collecting MUST be kept to a minimum.
5. Multiple runs to the store are required on the night in question...the last one must always be for another roll of double-sided tape to finish the board.
6. The science fair project must make Mom break down (either tears or screaming is acceptable).
7. And the last (and most important!) rule...enough work must be put into the project to get an acceptable grade, but not enough to warrant a WIN of any sort. (After all, we certainly don't want to drag this thing out ANY longer than necessary.)

Several of these rules were broken...first of all, Drew has wanted to do this project for nearly a year now. He had the whole thing planned out perfectly in his head. One thing went EXACTLY as expected...that would be the fact that his amazing, organized, on-top-of-it-all mother kept forgetting to buy the supplies (until two days before it was due)! Never mind that he asked me to nearly every day for two weeks. But notice, I said TWO days before it was due...which gave me A WHOLE DAY to get the pictures developed. It's a first.  Luckily, rule #6 was also broken, and the only tears involved were Drew's own from cutting onions for over an hour. :) 

The morning of the District Science Fair.

It took me a while to get that lovely picture...I had two kids who seem to think that any picture that doesn't involve them is completely unnecessary. 

In case you didn't believe me.

In case you needed more solid proof.

With his CUTE classmate Isabelle when we went back to pick up the boards. This was as close together as I could get them to stand, but if I succeed in arranging this marriage, I figured I'd better start getting pics of them together NOW.

Some final thoughts...

1. One of Jesse's good friends was a judge. We were highly suspicious that he might have been a little too lenient in his judging, and might have even blamed him for a couple of days. But, when we got back all of the judges scores, his were completely in line...sorry I questioned your integrity, Ferris. (No, not his real name. And no, I'm sure he does not read this blog.)
2. Drew made it all the way to the final judging at the District Science Fair...so clearly, no shenanigans were involved.
3. We have determined that it must all be due to Drew's charming personality (the kid DOES interview rather well!) and of course the wicked awesome board his mother helped him put together!