::car dealership::

One sunday a month or two ago Max decided he wanted to play "car dealership". He got out his big ol' box of matchbox/hot wheels cars and went for it.
He's always always loved cars. He's spent so many hours of his life playing with them. I love how engaged he gets.
Anyway.

And this is what he ended up with.
Isn't it amazing looking? We have lots of video with him explaining it and showing how you shop for cars, and having cars shopping for other cars. All sorts of good stuff.

But the biggest challenge is protecting the work of art from the little stinker.

But back then little piglet had just barely learned to crawl and he didn't go too fast. In fact I don't know if he ever even noticed the dealership was there. Our living room is big enough that Max can go back behind a chair and stay out of the line of sight.

So the dealership went on all that day, and it was, of course, super tragic when we finally had to clean it up.

He's such a funny guy, that Max.

::science part 1::

We got Max a cool science kit for Christmas. I thought he would really like it and I was right. In fact, he wanted to start working on it the second it was unwrapped and he tormented me every single day until I had a chance to work on it with him.
Finally one day things settled down a bit and we got to do a couple of experiments.

The first one we did was definitely the coolest. It was a color changing volcano that involved baking soda and citric acid and some other crazy stuff.

He felt so cool with this "pipette" and his little scoops and his chemicals. A cool and awesome scientist making things change colors. It was very cute.

Keeping him and the house clean though was a big task, and obviously a kit like this cannot be worked with alone by a six year old. So it required heavy parental involvement, which is good and bad, bad when little brothers need lots of attention too.
Anyway we had fun working on it together. After the little bubbly volcano we made large jiggly crystals.

That was all the science energy I had in me and so we packed up the kit and put it away, much to Max's chagrin.
He's asked me to work on it with him almost every day since........
Part two to follow......