Anytime the kids are home for extended amounts of time (Christmas, Spring Break, Presidents day, weekends...) they always seem to find highly creative ways to keep themselves busy. Sometimes it's
root beer races off the loft balcony, sometimes it's forming a path with all the books on the shelf and skipping over them in an impromptu game of homemade
Candy land, sometimes its makeovers on the baby. Sometimes, like today, its filling in the
touch pad on the laptop with peppermint chocolate candy. I walked in to the delightful smell of
peppermint and declared in my most serious voice "Who did this?" Followed with "Do you know how mad your Dad would be if he saw this?" Four pairs of eyes stared back at me and one
squeaky voice dared "No, how mad Mom?"
Silence...
hmmm what to say...they had finally got me...
Moms since the
beginning of time have been using that phrase. I swear they have. Its in cave drawings and Egyptian tombs. Small pictographs of moms warning their kids of the great wrath that will
ensue when their father gets home. Its the
ultimate scare tactic right? Not only did you get "Mom" punishments but you also had to spend the remainder of the day stewing in the void of exactly what was going to happen when Dad got home.
Ok so I may have overused that phrase but it was working well for so long. I just never really realized how much until one kid decided to go rouge on me and question the logic that is, well, me. I guess they are on to me since anyone who knows Erik is
probably asking the same question.
I'm not sure if mad is even usable for him. Guess I need a new threat.
Andrew's class did a collective project on volcanoes. He talked about nothing but volcanoes for the longest time because of it. The had a special Jr category that they entered in. As a class they took the first place prize. There was only two entries but it has made him very excited for the time when he gets to do his own projects.
Ethan did his project on the process of Osmosis. He dissolved the shells of eight eggs so that the membranes could be exposed. He placed to eggs in distilled water and then the rest of the eggs in different solutions of distilled water and corn syrup. He weighed the eggs every fifteen minutes for two hours to show how the corn syrup alters the flow of water across the membrane of the egg. He had a lot of fun with his project and I have to agree that holding those eggs without shells was a lot of fun. He took home third place at the school level of the science fair.
