Updates & Today

Since we blogged last we've had so much fun!!! We went to Disney on Ice and thought it was excellent! The colors and music and everything....we just had to pretend the rest of the day that we were actually in that performance!!! :) We also enjoyed lots of other stuff at the fair including all the fun rides and exhibits in the expo...I mean Quik Trip center :) We can't wait to go back for the Okla. Largest Classroom day!

Monday we played "clean the house" since we've been so busy lately. We had some wonderful incentive since our cousins, including a brand new one, were coming to visit! We all had a blast playing house and doing tons of laundry :) (inside joke) BabyGirl made a ghost mask all by herself and it was awesome!! We put up our new calendar and started working on that. We also went to gymnastics where we had an absolute blast!!! And, last but not least, a reading "lesson" at the end of the day. What fun!

Today we did our next cool science experiment. This one we took out of the Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake. BabyGirl remembered what 'chemistry' means and that baking soda and vinegar mixed together create a gas. I was psyched by this since we read the book last week! She really retains everything from these books since she loves them so much! Anyway, we filled a container with water, added 3 tsp of white vinegar and 2 tsp baking soda which created some fizzing. Then we added some salted peanuts to see what happened. She guessed that "the peanuts would shoot up 100 miles away and then turn green" :) Of course it wasn't that dramatic, but still very cool! The bubbles would cling to the peanuts making them float, then the bubbles would break at the surface and the peanuts would sink to the bottom starting the whole process again. It was awesome to watch. While we were watching we discussed carbon dioxide again.

We did some art making jack-o-lantern faces on a paper pumpkin, decorating a stand-up witch and just free expression. I love to see how different the creations look as BabyGirl gets older and can control the pencil or whatever she's using better.

Later we plan to cut & paste if she wants, and do our little mini reading lesson. Until tomorrow...