::science pt 2::

Remember this post I put up forever ago?
Well this is part two to that part one.

Remember that awesome science kit that we got Max for Christmas? We did a few of the experiments but then I had no time to work with Max on it for several weeks. When he heard that my parents were coming to our house for Sandy's blessing he was SO excited. He decided my mom would be perfect to do the science with, since she likes to teach him stuff and he likes to learn her stuff.
He was planning the science projects for weeks.
So when they got here he got her right to work.

Here they both are, wearing shirts that would be ok to be all stained by red cabbage juice.

While they were working hard, Sandy was hanging out with Grandpa.
Who was, of course, tweaking my bread recipe to make sure it works out here at extremely high altitude!


They did several projects the first day, and I can't even remember what this one was, but it was cool looking. My mom was so patient and sweet and had Max read the instructions for all the projects. He was in heaven.



And they did more the next day.....to be continued.....
and the requisite baby picture--this was from the same day and I just COULDN'T leave it out.

::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......