For The Love of Science

It was once again time for my favorite thing about 5th grade: The Science Fair.

Now to be fair, the teachers gave us about a month's notice - of course, that meant they sent home information the day before Christmas break. HELLO?!?!?! There's enough going on at that time of the year that keeping track of Science Fair information isn't going to happen in this house.

So I put the information aside and figured we'd deal with it after Christmas. Well Christmas came and went and so did all remembering of a Science Fair happening. Then, as it's happened before - Facebook posts reminded me that the Science Fair was quickly coming up.

I was getting stressed with everything else going on in life and told Eric (not so nicely) that I was tired of always being the one that had to do the school projects with the kids. So Eric came up with Lex's project for this year and even took Lex to the store for supplies.

They decided to expound on the whole Diet Coke and Mentos experiment. Lex wanted to know how other soda's would react and if they reacted differently with regular flavored Mentos than with fruit flavored Mentos.

So one early Saturday afternoon we took to the backyard and watched a show. We had everyone outside watching, even the dogs. We got a few surprises and we really had a nice day. And YES, we were in the backyard, IN JANUARY, IN UTAH with NO SNOW! Crazy.

And here's a look at all the reactions all rolled up into one quick video for your viewing pleasure. And sorry about the vertical video. I wanted to make sure I got the height for each experiment...Probably didn't need to do it that way, however...

The next couple days, Lex and worked on his report and his poster. We got it all together and he took it to school. When I went to go view his project at school, I was right behind the teacher that was 'grading' his project. I was glad to see he got 80/100. Not too bad for procrastination.

Another project down for another 5th grader. Now I've got 4 years to think about the next project.

What Happens Next...

Random December

Here's a look at the random events that happened in December.

We start with a shopping trip that proved to be too much for Ailey. I went shopping with Eric's mom looking for a few things and after a short time in the 2nd store, Ailey decided she had had enough.

We made sure we hurried and finished our trip and then took the poor girl to get some lunch. 

SIDE STORY: On the way to meet up with Eric's mom the song Santa Baby came on and Ailey said something like, "This song is stupid. Santa IS NOT a baby." I had to explain to her what the song was really saying and left it at that.

At lunch another version of Santa Baby was playing to which Ailey said, "UGH! Not this song again! I HATE this song."

She makes me laugh.

Next up we have Jace's first experience with Oreo cookies. We were at Eric's mom's house and she gave Jace his first Oreo. This smart little bugger knew the correct way to eat Oreo's without any previous experience...crazy!

I think Jace really likes Oreo's. What do you think?

In our house, real life happens. Or I may have gotten a little sidetracked by a Jimmy Fallon video while Jace was eating lunch. I blame Eric. He does distracting things when he works from home. Anyway, after viewing the video Eric wanted me to see, I came back to this....

 

Guess he was done with his food and all ready for his nap! Thankfully he stayed asleep when I moved him from the high chair to his bed.

And what happens when you let a pre-teen get puff paint with extra Christmas money? She decorates her and her sisters shoes...

So I didn't much care that she decorated her shoes. I bought them for 4 bucks at the DI, so Tanis had shoes for the Renaissance Festival a few years ago. Somehow she ended up with them. I was a little bothered when she started decorating Ailey's shoes though, but she did the bat signal for Batman on one shoe and one for Batgirl on the other. She got major props for creativity and Ailey loved it when all was said and done, so no harm - no foul.

What Happens Next...