EGGS-periment

Sophie's 'I Wonder' project for school was to test whether different drinks stain teeth. So, we hard boiled some eggs yesterday to use as teeth doubles. Then Sophie was up and dressed at 6:02 AM this morning!!! Here are the pictures from the day:

Supplies ready...
Dropping eggs in different types of drinks...

From left to right in the pic below, the liquids are water, tea (which she brewed herself this morning -- extra dark), Orange Crush soda, chocolate milk, grape juice, Cherry 7UP, Fruit Punch KoolAid, Dr Pepper, V8 Spicy Hot. Sophie's guess was that Dr. Pepper, tea and grape juice would be the leading offenders. The older kids had an Early Release day today, so school got out at noon. After 6 hours of soaking, Sophie took the eggs out...

She really didn't like the V8!!

After taking notes about what they looked like right out of the liquid, Sophie then tested the benefit of brushing!! You can even see the white spots on a couple of the eggs that she had already brushed.

Turned out that grape juice cleaned up OK, but tea and Dr. Pepper drinkers ........BEWARE!!

Summer Sketches 2010

Sophie, Jason, and Allison love to draw. Many summer afternoons were spent coloring in the game room. Here is a sample of their sketches from this past summer.

Allison mainly likes to color rather than draw.




Jason sometimes draws things like these butterflies.....

But he more likes to color a patch completely. This is an often rendered portrait of Daddy (or it might be a self portrait).

Rockets were a main topic this summer for Sophie.

This was actually from back in the spring. I couldn't believe Sophie drew this one because it looks so good, but then I saw the humor and sure enough, it's Sophie's.

Demo by Kids

Well, John and I decided to rework our closet. After several weeks of trying to design what we wanted, our simple little closet reshelving turned into a not-so-simple master closet/master bathroom remodel.....and the official demolition starts tomorrow morning!!!!

So, in order to get ready for the demo crew, we had to clean out the closet (and the bathroom and most of the master bedroom). We have officially moved upstairs for the foreseeable future. The kids got a real kick out of how "clean" our closet was.... And then they got to decorate it.......

Daddy also got in on the fun....

Here's Sophie with her selfportrait to her right and Jason did a drawing of himself to Sophie's left. Markers didn't quite accomplish the look, so they had to break out the glue, yarn, glitter, and whatever other crafty things they could get their hands on.

Now at this point in the evening, mommy had to go to church for a meeting.....SOOOOOOO, Daddy broke out the HAMMERS!!!

......and let them go at it!!!

Where's Allison during the banging???? Somewhere quiet!!!

Thanks Aunt Crystal...

We had a great snack time today!!!

Yummy!!! Happy Birthday to ME!!

Allison's 1st Day of School 2010

So, she had to wait an extra week after big sister and big brother started, but she finally got her day!!The backpack is almost as big as her...

She has Mrs. Susan this year (who was also Jason 3's teacher)...

And all that she had been talking about for days was wanting to paint at school....Here she is all smocked up and ready to go!!!