Floors and Robots

The guys started working on the roof and floors today. The outside of our house is looking a little, um, sad.

 But the inside is looking finished! (I mean, comparatively speaking.)

I went for a run with some friends tonight, and Eric helped the kids build a tin can robot! Isn't it cute?
The reason it only has one eye is because I threw the other eye away. To be fair, I didn't realize it was part of this kit, since the pieces have been strewn around for more than a week.

Science Night!

We took the kids to a neuroscience celebration at the science museum. It was really cool! They got to look through a microscope at slices of fish brains that were stained purple.

They also played an m&m game about brain inhibitors and delayed gratification. The highlight of the evening, though, was that the little guy got to hold a real human brain in his hands.

He said it was heavy. The guy helping him with the brain is a PhD neuroscientist who took time to explain all kinds of things about it-- where your eyes go, what parts let you talk, what parts let you throw things. It was fascinating!

Science Fair!

We set up the little guy's science fair project tonight (and were roped into helping set up the tables and chairs). He's SO excited and proud!

I am, too!

Science!

The little guy is participating in his school's Science Fair (in a week!)-- he came up with a really cute project all by himself! We started putting his backboard together tonight.

I'm so proud of how hard he's working on this project.

Science!

We played with the little dude's science kit yesterday. One of the projects has you dye water and then hold the colors up to your eyes to learn about combining colors. The baby was into it, although she had no idea what was going on.

Another project involved dying crystals. The little guy did it last year and made all brown crystals (brown is what you get when you mix every color). This year it was fun to see him understand it a bit more and make crystals of all different colors!

Education

We learned something from the little dude yesterday-- teeth aren't considered bones! They're learning about skeletons and such at school. Now that you know the little guy is an expert on bones, please enjoy this video:

Science!

The baby is still sick (double ear infection), but should start perking up in the next day or two thanks to some serious antibiotics. I managed to get her hair into pigtails for about five minutes today… she hated it!

We're all going a little stir-crazy, so we got out the little dude's science kit to learn about colors and make crystals. Here he is looking through a color-kaleidescope. As you rotate the test tubes, the color you see changes! I love doing stuff like this with him.

We have a winner!

He might not look like he's paying attention, but he won a prize for SCIENCE today!

Being this smart is exhausting!

Every month or so, the kids' school posts a science question by the door. Each child can fill out a piece of paper with their name, class, and answer. If they get the right answer, they are entered into a drawing to win a prize. The little guy won! Here's his entry form:

He likes to switch up the order of the letters in his name.

He correctly answered the question "How long does it take to make a 1 inch layer of soil?" with choice D, which was 500 years. And then he won a lunchbox!

He's been wearing it on his head. What can I say? He's a genius.

Bravo, little guy, bravo!