Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Even in the midst of chaos...

We've had a death in the family this week (DaddyO's grandma, God rest her soul) and a memorial for my grandfather who died back in June, but the learning just keeps on happening! We enjoyed a trip to SciQuest this morning where the boys spent most of their time concocting a "recipe for disaster" in the kitchen portion of the model home. Then Tex went to the gift shop and spent his allowance on a Life-Size dinosaur book (very cool!) and a stick of rock candy, which was a nice way to practice his money skills.

Oh, and that darn celery experiment is giving us SO many opportunities to learn!! Grrr! The blue food coloring hardly showed up at all even though the celery

6 comments:

  1. Life-size dinosaur book? Just how life-size? Like...a baby dinosaur sized? ;)

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  2. Hardee har har! :-) No, it's a regular size book, with life-size pictures of dinosaurs or their parts. So there's a 4-page pull out of T-Rex's mouth, another one of Therazinasaurus's (sp) claws, another of Dilophosaurus's head, etc. Kind of intimidating when you think about being up close with one a la Jurassic Park!

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  3. I was just wondering where you would store a life-sized dinosaur book is all. ;)

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  4. Well, some dinosaurs were only the size of chickens, so it being Life Size doesn't necessarily mean it's big... but I know what you mean. ;-)

    Pardon me while I go type up a post full of typos. That ought to drive you just bonkers!! :-D

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  5. How long are you going to keep me waiting for the typo-ridden post???

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  6. Oh, I was just teasing you. I couldn't really do that, it would drive ME crazy! ;-)

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