A Couple of Big Turkeys :)

Brian made this beautiful turkey to decorate our Thanksgiving table out of a Pringles can. Keith said he made a Pilgrim and Native American out of cans as a child. I looked for a template online and could not find one, but I found this site that offered a cute turkey template. Brian is getting very good with cutting on the line and he even cut all of the cuts on the side of each feather! He had a blast doing this!

Science Center Trip

We were in St. Louis for an eye appointment, so we took the opportunity to go to the the St. Louis Science Center for the day. We hadn't been there for a while. It was a beautiful day and we were able to play and learn outside as well as inside. We got to see two science shows. One of the shows was the Science of "Peeps" (the marshmallow candy). They did a lot of different things to the peeps and compared the end result to the control peep. The boys were amazed at what the liquid nitrogen did to the peep and then they got to feel the floor after the instructor poured some on the floor. Dry and cold...very unexpected.

St. Louis Zoo...Free, Hands-On Education!

The boys and I went to the zoo this afternoon and had a terrific time, as always.  I cannot speak high enough praise for the St. Louis Zoo.  We focused on insects, primates, apes, and reptiles on this trip.  The boys on a sculpture outside of the Insectarium.

Resting for a bit outside:)

  The "begged" me to take their picture with this statue.  They loved the snakes, especially the Burmese Python. 

On the gorilla statue before the real thing.

Ahh...brotherly love...with sun in your eyes.

Ready to go home????

Brian said, "We looked at the monkeys.  We looked at the gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans. "

It's All Relative

The kids were pretending to be scientists today and calling themselves Dr. Einstein, Professor Einstein, and Baby Einstein.  I asked them if they knew who Einstein was and they knew that he was a scientist.  This started us on a quest to find out some more information.  We discovered a nice article for kids about Einstein and the theory of relativity.  Joshua really seemed to latch onto the example of an infinitely tall building in which you are in the elevator  falling.  It doesn't feel like you are falling at all, but if people saw you from the outside, they would see you falling.  If you saw them, they would look like they are flying up.  It seemed like things were really clicking with the boys and how it all depends on perspective.  Brian then stated, "It's like when stuffed animals come to life."  Oh well.  I guess that is one perspective. 

Fire Station Open House

A local fire station had an open house this past weekend that the boys absolutely loved!

Brian exiting the "smoke house" after being trained on what to do in case there is ever a fire in our home.  

He got to put out a "fire" with a real fire hose! 

We got to see a very old fire "truck"!

We also rode on the back of a fire truck...totally awesome!

Brian is Reading!

Brian reading a book again that he read yesterday.

Caterpillar Investigation

We found a caterpillar and observed it.