families who science together…?
Trying to jump on the “families who pray together, stay together” bandwagon, but it doesn’t quite work with “science” since science only rhymes with alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, and reliance. The girls had “Family Science Night” at their school last week. I immediately decided to sign us up for it (schedules permitting) since Mike claims to be a scientist like 20 times a day. The PTO for our school was sponsoring the evening and were providing free dinner and free childcare. How could we pass up that opportunity? The girls were very excited about the chance to have us involved in a school event. I never get chaperone or volunteer now that I’ve got Violet at home.
Mike was a little disappointed by the lack of fire or explosives, but we still had a nice time with the girls. Daddy and Mimi split off to do an activity for the lower grades. They glued tissue paper onto pre-cut construction trees. Daddy was less than thrilled. Annie and I practiced measuring with non-standard units of measurement such as our forearms, pinkies, thumbnails. When Daddy and Mimi reunited with us, Annie and I were in the process of making a flying object without wings. I quickly made Mimi one, and the girls were off flying their creations.
The last activity for the night was to make towers out of toothpicks and marshmallows. It was difficult for the girls to understand the concept (and not eat all the marshmallows) until they saw the towers that Daddy and I made. Then they each made one of their own although I think they might be posing with the ones Daddy and I made (at least Mimi is).
And this is was what we were greeted with when we picked up Violet from the childcare at the end of the evening. Poor tootsie:(
