Edison bedtime discussions

When Edison doesn't want to go to sleep, but knows he's supposed to be quiet, he whispers,

"Daddy, I want to tell you something."

"One thing Edison, then be still and quiet and close your eyes."

Then he says/yells in an excited, loud stage whisper, "I love you!". It is very sweet and cute and heartwarming.

Instead, tonight he tells me "I love elephants, they are big and they walk very slow and have really big poops!"

So much for sweetness.

Avant-Garde Art...

or just white trash entertainment? It's so hard to tell sometimes.

I'm imagining this is what that artist in The Big Lebowski did in her early years.

It was 50 degrees and sunny in Seattle yesterday, which for Edy is bathing suit weather, unless you don't have one handy, then it's just time to strip down to your underwear.

Budding Musicians

We went to an open house for the Seattle Symphony Children's Music classes a few weekends ago. They have an instrument "petting zoo" where the kids call try playing lots if different kinds. Edy and Edison both like the violins, and Edy was really getting into the horns. She played the trumpet, french horn, and trombone.

Ed tried the trombone once, but I think it was a little too loud for him. Too bad because he really likes making that slpppppbbbbbbt noise with his lips even when he doesn't have them on a horn

Mindblowing Science

Edy received a science experiment kit for Christmas, mainly consisting of baking soda, citric acid and some powdered colorant for experimenting with acids and bases, and creating CO2 bubbles when you mix them together.

We performed the color changing volcano and underwater volcano experiments this weekend. When we are done with the ones in the box, Edy designs her own versions, which usually consist of mixing various things together and seeing what happens. The last pic is our "science orange" that we mixed into our color changing volcano. It actually did register a reddish color change, which identified that orange juice is an acid.

She really enjoys it and she is retaining a lot of the science behind it. She is the one that told me the orange juice was an acid based on the color. That's mind blowing!