Molly has named Mr. Quadrister. She thought of that name while hopping around being silly the other day. And the name has name stuck. 🤷🏻♂️
Now Claire is Sister Quadrister.
And Molly is Hula Girl.
Molly showed a cool magic trick — oops, I mean science experiment — to her class for “Scientist of the Week” today. Molly got to choose her own experiment. She didn’t like any of the experiments from the standard class books because they “don’t have useful conclusion”. She found an experiment she liked roughly relating to air pressure in a random kid’s science book that I had.
As you can see in the picture, she turns a cup of water upside down, and a playing card miraculously holds the water in the cup.
The class was pretty impressed and had lots of questions. “es this work with orange juice?”, “Does it work with sparkling water?”, “Do you have to use a card, or can I use my iPad?”, “Does it work on a lower value card?” To test the last question, we tried the experiment on a second card of lower value (2 of spades) to make sure it still worked. What do you know, it worked!? 😉
You got a love those curious third grade minds! And way to go Molly for a great presentation.
These are prime days for sleepovers. Almost every weekend, Claire has a a sleepover. She sleeps at Susies’. She sleeps at Emma’s. She has Susie or Emma over to her mom’s. She has Susie or Emma over to my house. Sometimes Claire has two sleepovers in a row and manages to stay awake and be in a reasonable mood on the third day.
At this point, Claire has probably had dozens — even hundreds? — of sleepovers. They are so easy and routine that I just go to sleep and let them have fun and get themselves to sleep when they’re ready.
At the moment, Claire’s sleepovers involve a few basic ingredients:
We’ve gotten a little tired of pizza. Tonight I made spaghetti carbonara, and other times we’ve had, uh, spaghetti, or ramen. I’m saying anything but pizza right now!
Anyways, these are the glory days of sleepovers, and I love it. These kids make it so easy!
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