Mar. 10, 2009 - If you haven't heard...
Mason got glasses! Turns out our little scientist is going to start looking the part.
With the weather (really the whole winter) being so mild where we are, we decided to make the drive to Boulder and hike Red Rocks trail. Now, going in we didn't realize this 'hike' was in fact scaling a mountain. Or, we probably would have left the two 30 lb. babies, strollers, sick children, and our terrible directions at home. It was indeed funny--I'm sure, watching my friend and I lug 9 children, 6 of them under the age of 5, up a rocky mountain side. It was, however, a fresh breath of God's beautiful creations.
After our recent field trip to LASP (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics) Mason has become very interested in 'Kepler,' their spacecraft launched on March 6th. We found a Floridia news station that had the live NASA audio stream--very cool!
Kepler made its entrance into space after being in the works for 28 years. The planet-hunting spacecraft will be on a three and a half year mission looking for planets similar to earth, with parent stars like our sun.
Today, oddly enough, it snowed. As glad as I am that we don't live in the mountains anymore, I was secretly hoping for one or two last snowfalls this winter. We found these icicles in our backyard and brough them in to see how long it would take for them to melt ( we also needed some rainwater for our venus fly trap.)
44 minutes---much longer than I would have guessed.
Here's some facts about icicles the kids and I discussed:
*Icicles are formed when water freezes and expands.
*Icicles are usually found on the sunny side of a building because the sun's rays melt snow or ice.
*The melted water is pulled down by gravity, refreezes, and forms an icicle in an inverted cone shape.
Here's the latest addition to our fun. Our Venus Fly Trap. The kids have been enjoying feeding it. We've learned they way they attract their food is by the color inside the trap, as well as an inviting smell. Since there aren't ( I hope) many bugs in our house, we've been feeding it ground turkey, turkey bacon, or lunch meat.
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On a side note, here's Mason with the fish he caught at The Bass Pro Shop catch and release pond. Payden caught one too, but Mommy left with the camera---opps!
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Mar. 14, 2009 - fun!
Posted by JamieLee
Looks like y'all have been up to lots of fun learning! ¢¾
