I thought I would share the conversation I had with my 5 year old while I was fixing dinner......
Child: I want "that" thing....
Mom: What thing?
C: You know "that" thing.....
M: No, what thing?
C: "that" thing you had "that" day......
M: What day?
C: "that" day!!!!
M: The thing I had "that" day?
C: Yes! "that" thing.....
M: Why do you want "that" thing (still unaware of what "that" is)
C: I want to play with "that"........
M: (thinking: well that sure narrowed it down?!?!?!)
C: Well, can I have "that" thing??????
M: I don't know what "that" is.....
C: MMMMMOOOOOMMMMMM, it's "THAT" thing you had "THAT" day!!!!!!!
M: Well "THAT" narrowed it down, haha.....
C: MOM!
M: OK, so you want "that", what does "that" look like?
C: It looks like "that" and has "that" thing on it....
M: ........................
C: You know it goes like "that"......
M: ...........................
C: And does "that"......
M: um?????
C: (insert groaning sound followed by child walking loudly away then coming back) You know
"that" thing with the kid?
M: (now really confused) The thing with the kid?????
C: YES! "THAT" thing you had "THAT" day with the kid on it?
M: oh you want to watch Jack Jack Attack on my IPod?
C: YES!!!!!!!
M: the battery is dead on my IPod.
C: (insert loud groan/growl from child followed by stomping away)
Dinner: $30
Ipod: $150
Finding out what "that" is: Priceless!
Friday, March 28, 2008
More YouTube / Flying Squirrel
I was reminded of this video earlier today. This has got to be the best goalie hockey fight when Neil Little jumps into the middle of the fight. I think he looks like one of those little flying squirrels.
Now lets compare.....
Flying Squirrel
Now lets compare.....
Flying Squirrel
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Our Time-Out Timer
We have a timer that we use for time out. This timer can not only be clipped to the back of your shirt while your child standing with their nose on the wall, but if the child messes with it it will only ADD time . This means if you don't be careful, your 5 minute time out will easily turn into a 5 HOUR time out . So the kids not only learn to be good, but they also learn "don't mess with mom's timer!"
Now, I have been asked by many mom's where to obtain a this timer. Well, there is a method to buying/getting this particular one. First you must break your other timer just in time for a major dinner at your house (thanksgiving), then take ALL the kids to the grocery store with you to buy groceries for this dinner and give them each their own cart because you will need more than one cart. They will proceed with cart races through the store, your 5 year old must then start poking holes in the ground beef packages and giggling, but his giggle is just so darn cute you can't get too mad! At this very moment, out of the corner of your eye you must see a timer on a tab hanging from a shelf, it is the last one and you remember that your timer is broke, you grab timer without reading or looking it over because you are in such a hurry to leave the store. This timer must be in the bag that breaks in the parking lot. You will pick upyour new timer from under car after all your kids run to pick it up for you and in the rush it manage to kick it under the car. It must be dropped again upon arriving in your kitchen. Then upon putting the batteries in it you will find it no longer works. The thought of going back to the store for another timer will make you gently tap (bang) the timer on the counter, it works! Sort of, it now only adds time if you mess with it too much and you will be darned if you can get it to stop beeping after times is up. The next day your oldest must then knock it off the fridge and break the magnet off and after more gentle tapping (banging) because it is now acting as if it is possessed you get it to work just in time to put your 5 year old in time out. At which point your child plays with the timer trying to get out early and about 10 minutes after the timer should have gone off , you realize that it is the best timer even though it does seem to have a mind of its own. Enjoy new timer .
Now, I have been asked by many mom's where to obtain a this timer. Well, there is a method to buying/getting this particular one. First you must break your other timer just in time for a major dinner at your house (thanksgiving), then take ALL the kids to the grocery store with you to buy groceries for this dinner and give them each their own cart because you will need more than one cart. They will proceed with cart races through the store, your 5 year old must then start poking holes in the ground beef packages and giggling, but his giggle is just so darn cute you can't get too mad! At this very moment, out of the corner of your eye you must see a timer on a tab hanging from a shelf, it is the last one and you remember that your timer is broke, you grab timer without reading or looking it over because you are in such a hurry to leave the store. This timer must be in the bag that breaks in the parking lot. You will pick up
Indoor Hockey and the Corn Missile
Ok, you may be thinking that all hockey is indoors, but what I am talking about in "inside a residential house" hockey. Sounds a little more scary right.
Well some idiot out there thought this sounded fun and invented a hockey game set especially for your living room. This comes complete with a little living room sized hockey net, 2 small sticks, and a puck. Now lets all think about all the BREAKABLE things in your living room...............
It took another idiot (AKA my husband) to think this was a great thing to get for the kids to play.
Now we already have a crack in the screen of our TV from the wii controller getting thrown at it while playing bowling, now we are going to test the remaining strength with a good old game of living room hockey. Rick agreed that this didn't sound like the best idea, he had planned on it going downstairs anyway. So he proceeded to set it up in a "safer place"........
The net now sits "safely" in front of my 72 gallon fish tank that contains my expensive Japanese Koi Butterfly fish. On the left side of the tank I have some shelves, the bottom shelves contain some board books (not a big deal) however the top shelves contain all our art supplies which include about 20 bottles of various colored paints. The Right side of the tank has some more shelves, the bottom contain coloring books (ok) however the top contain all our science stuff which includes various magnifying glasses, our new microscope, and other various very breakable things. But this is a safer place than the living room, right!?!?!?!?! NOT!
Now for the actual playing of hockey, so far the stuff behind the net has withstood the game. My ankles are another story. After getting hit in the ankle by a flying hockey puck for the 3rd time I decided that they needed a "softer" puck. So I grab my knitting and crocheting stuff and set off to make some softer pucks. So, I find a pattern for these really neat hackey sack balls that are just the right size and I get to work making one.
However I guess it was my turn to wear the stupid hat. Remember I said I wanted to make them a "softer" puck? Well, instead of filling this nice little ball with nice soft fiberfill, I listened to my husbands concern that it needs to be heavier....... so I fill it with corn. I have successfully created 3 little corn missiles! And the kids now play little corn missile hockey.
Well some idiot out there thought this sounded fun and invented a hockey game set especially for your living room. This comes complete with a little living room sized hockey net, 2 small sticks, and a puck. Now lets all think about all the BREAKABLE things in your living room...............
It took another idiot (AKA my husband) to think this was a great thing to get for the kids to play.
Now we already have a crack in the screen of our TV from the wii controller getting thrown at it while playing bowling, now we are going to test the remaining strength with a good old game of living room hockey. Rick agreed that this didn't sound like the best idea, he had planned on it going downstairs anyway. So he proceeded to set it up in a "safer place"........
The net now sits "safely" in front of my 72 gallon fish tank that contains my expensive Japanese Koi Butterfly fish. On the left side of the tank I have some shelves, the bottom shelves contain some board books (not a big deal) however the top shelves contain all our art supplies which include about 20 bottles of various colored paints. The Right side of the tank has some more shelves, the bottom contain coloring books (ok) however the top contain all our science stuff which includes various magnifying glasses, our new microscope, and other various very breakable things. But this is a safer place than the living room, right!?!?!?!?! NOT!
Now for the actual playing of hockey, so far the stuff behind the net has withstood the game. My ankles are another story. After getting hit in the ankle by a flying hockey puck for the 3rd time I decided that they needed a "softer" puck. So I grab my knitting and crocheting stuff and set off to make some softer pucks. So, I find a pattern for these really neat hackey sack balls that are just the right size and I get to work making one.
However I guess it was my turn to wear the stupid hat. Remember I said I wanted to make them a "softer" puck? Well, instead of filling this nice little ball with nice soft fiberfill, I listened to my husbands concern that it needs to be heavier....... so I fill it with corn. I have successfully created 3 little corn missiles! And the kids now play little corn missile hockey.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Mathopoly
Here is a great game for the kids to enforce various math skills.
Pixilated School Notes: Pixilated Math Monopoly
Have fun!
Pixilated School Notes: Pixilated Math Monopoly
Have fun!
More YouTube
This is extremely funny.
Bill Engvall's Thunderbird Flight, with footage from the actual flight.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq36K-vgIPM
Bill Engvall's Thunderbird Flight, with footage from the actual flight.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq36K-vgIPM
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Our next science project
This is going to be our next science project....
http://www.growafrog.com/
We are going to get TADpole Tube-Town and grow some frogs.
Rick has the great idea of just waiting for a few weeks and going next door to the golf course to find tadpoles and putting them in a aquarium. I see 2 problems with this....
1. he will come back with more than tadpoles (hint: I have seen several turtles over there)
2. Tube-Town is completely and securely enclosed (at least until the kids play with it)...... The aquarium is not
3. (I know I said 2 problems) Tube-Town is just plain cute!
Anyhow, I think it will be fun for the kids to watch this little fish like mutation turn into a cute little frog, and a great science experiment. Which I know they will then loose interest in and it will grow into a big frog that will have abandonment issues and I will end up "counseling" and caring for the large lonely frog.
But it will be fun!?!?!
http://www.growafrog.com/
We are going to get TADpole Tube-Town and grow some frogs.
Rick has the great idea of just waiting for a few weeks and going next door to the golf course to find tadpoles and putting them in a aquarium. I see 2 problems with this....
1. he will come back with more than tadpoles (hint: I have seen several turtles over there)
2. Tube-Town is completely and securely enclosed (at least until the kids play with it)...... The aquarium is not
3. (I know I said 2 problems) Tube-Town is just plain cute!
Anyhow, I think it will be fun for the kids to watch this little fish like mutation turn into a cute little frog, and a great science experiment. Which I know they will then loose interest in and it will grow into a big frog that will have abandonment issues and I will end up "counseling" and caring for the large lonely frog.
But it will be fun!?!?!
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Got microscope, now what???
Well, I ran out of ideas of what to do with our new microscope. So after a quick search, I found lots of cool activities...
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/articles/introductory-microscope-experiments-teaching-tip.html
http://www.microscope-microscope.org/activities/school/microscope-school.htm
http://www.greatscopes.com/activity.htm
http://www.cbv.ns.ca/sstudies/activities/science/1.html
http://education.sdsc.edu/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=34
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/articles/introductory-microscope-experiments-teaching-tip.html
http://www.microscope-microscope.org/activities/school/microscope-school.htm
http://www.greatscopes.com/activity.htm
http://www.cbv.ns.ca/sstudies/activities/science/1.html
http://education.sdsc.edu/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=34
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
No, I'm the baby!
This afternoon Beep decided that she was the baby.
I think this is because the baby was in "beep's highchair"...
I think this is because the baby was in "beep's highchair"...
microscope
We got our microscope, and of course it didn't work! I think it is some kind of curse that we are not allowed to research crystals.
ok, the microscope itself worked fine, it was the light that didn't work. So instead of just taking it back I tried to fix it. About 3 hours later I gave up and said it is going back. 15 minutes later Rick had it fixed, figures.
So today we had fun with the microscope. We looked at our sugar crystal, then some grass and leaves, then various other items around the house. When we ran out of things in the house Rick and the kids took a field trip to the golf course next door and got all kind of more things to look at. We spent a whole day looking at "little wiggly things" in the microscope.
But here is a word of caution, never look at anything you are about to eat, or normally eat, under a microscope if you ever want to eat that again.
ok, the microscope itself worked fine, it was the light that didn't work. So instead of just taking it back I tried to fix it. About 3 hours later I gave up and said it is going back. 15 minutes later Rick had it fixed, figures.
So today we had fun with the microscope. We looked at our sugar crystal, then some grass and leaves, then various other items around the house. When we ran out of things in the house Rick and the kids took a field trip to the golf course next door and got all kind of more things to look at. We spent a whole day looking at "little wiggly things" in the microscope.
But here is a word of caution, never look at anything you are about to eat, or normally eat, under a microscope if you ever want to eat that again.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Jumping For Joy
A few weeks ago our homeschooling lead us down the path of studying rocks. And when you study rocks you somehow end up doing the dreaded sugar crystal experiment (as I now call it). So we followed the "recipe" precisely and waited.....
And waited......
And waited......
And, guess what, we waited some more..........
And this whole time the kids assumed *Mommy* did something wrong and day after day I was asked "why?".......
Finally while cooking dinner I decided it was time to dump our "no show sugar crystals". So I pull them out from the back of the counter and look down into them (as opposed to through the side as we have been looking) and there floating on top, looking right back at me was a wee little sugar crystal. I left dinner to burn and gathered the kids to carefully pulled the string out and fished the sugar crystal out with a spoon. It was our only crystal in all 3 jars, and the older girls are a little jealous of their little brothers ability to grow sugar crystals, but we are all very excited.
It is now sitting on our counter waiting for further observation under a microscope.
We did it, we grew a sugar crystal!
And waited......
And waited......
And, guess what, we waited some more..........
And this whole time the kids assumed *Mommy* did something wrong and day after day I was asked "why?".......
Finally while cooking dinner I decided it was time to dump our "no show sugar crystals". So I pull them out from the back of the counter and look down into them (as opposed to through the side as we have been looking) and there floating on top, looking right back at me was a wee little sugar crystal. I left dinner to burn and gathered the kids to carefully pulled the string out and fished the sugar crystal out with a spoon. It was our only crystal in all 3 jars, and the older girls are a little jealous of their little brothers ability to grow sugar crystals, but we are all very excited.
It is now sitting on our counter waiting for further observation under a microscope.
We did it, we grew a sugar crystal!
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