::eggs::

The second to the last of the easter posts...

We decorated some eggs saturday afternoon. I'm pretty impressed with myself that we even did it considering all that was going on. But since Kathy was here and she helped me get all packed, moved and unpacked in a really short period of time, we were able to pull off some egg boiling and decorating.
Max made some of the coolest eggs ever.

He got out his Atlas of the Universe that he earned by reading books at school and made some moons.

Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. And maybe the biggest moon of all, we're just not sure.

Pluto. Not a planet anymore, but instead an awesome easter egg.

I love them!

Hunting for them was fun, but I just enjoyed the moment and took no photos. I'm allowed to do that once in a while, right?

::interest/fascination/obsession::

A while back Max ran across a show called the Zula Patrol on Boston's PBS channel. It's a (poorly in my opinion) computer animated kids show that has a lot of silly stuff that happens, but also communicates a lot of solid info about space and more especially the solar system.

Max fell in love with the solar system. Suddenly he knew the names of all the planets, and the names of lots of moons. He knew the order of the planets and which was hottest, which was farthest from the sun. And some of the time he knew the WHY behind this stuff too. I was impressed.

We got some books from the library and read up even more.

And then some more books.

He's not interested in space ships that much. Not really interested in aliens or astronauts or black holes. Just the solar system. And I think it's both adorable and very fun.

The other day we were out to eat and here's what he created (with Kris) on the placemat.

Earth and an astonaut.

I'm pretty sure the planet and the rocket on the left are Kris's, but the right hand rocket is little Max's.

Saturn, by Max.

Once again I think PBS is great. I wouldn't even know he was interested in this stuff if it wasn't for them. Way to go PBS!