 Kris and Meredith went out earlier in the week by themselves. Kris dropped Meredith off at a friend’s house, and then went on to take our honey supers to have the honey extracted. (He came home with 60 pounds of honey! From a hive we have only had for 4 months!) This left Fiona, [...]  Meredith loves doing science experiments. She has really wanted to do a particular one that involves building a volcano out of clay and then using baking soda and vinegar for the lava. We don’t have everything we would need to do it indoors right now, but we suggested she build a volcano outside using [...]  After we did our last experiment, Meredith asked if we could do another. When I asked her what sort, she said she wanted to fill up a bowl of water and put an apple in and see what happened. I almost tried to veer her in a bit of a different direction [...]  I have had this experiment at the back of my mind for a long time, but recently read about it again and thought it might be something Meredith would have fun with now (and get why it’s so neat). Basically, you mix up two parts of corn starch and one part water (it works [...]  We were out with a good friend at the beach yesterday, and Fiona fell asleep on the way home. When we got home, I parked in the shade, left the doors open, and Meredith and I proceeded to take some pictures and talk about some of the flowers growing nearby while we waited for [...]  I’d read about seed balls a few times and thought it might be an interesting project to try, but hadn’t got around to it. Basically, seed balls are a mixture of clay, compost, and seeds formed into a ball. The clay protects the seed from birds and insects, the compost gives it something to [...]  I keep mentioning this project we did. It was so successful I really want to actually write about. This kept her attention the entire time and she did most of it completely on her own. Meredith had told me she wanted to watch Three Little Pigs. I originally thought of making her a felt [...]  We had a farewell play date with some of the other moms and kids in the co-op this morning, where we made snow globes with the kids. I didn’t think to bring my camera with me there unfortunately, but we decided to make snow globes. This was definitely more of a mom’s craft than [...]  A few moms in our co-op organized a Luminara Lantern Festival for the kids this year. Luminara has been a yearly thing here in Victoria since 2000, but I’d never heard of it until last year, and this year was the first time we’d done anything for it. Luminara began in 2000, [...]  Over the weekend, Meredith suddenly very excitedly started chattering about her “mama apple” and wanting to see it. It took me a minute to realize she meant our mummified apple project. It had been less than a week so I wasn’t confident anything would have happened, but I didn’t want to dampen her [...] |
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