Live and Learn
Sep. 27, 2006
My other son the ferryboat maker.
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I'm going to make a boat.....a ferryboat. That was middle's out-of-the-blue announcement as he burst into the playroom. And off he went as fast as he came in. Thirty or so minutes later he came back in with his ferryboat - a pencil box with Matchbox cars in it (a ferryboat, remember?) taped (lots of tape - middle loves tape) to a shoebox. Can I see if it floats? Can we put it in the pool? Images of "Will It Float" (a segment on the David Letterman show) flashed through my mind as we made our way out to the pool. Middle was confident of his design (oldest didn't give it a chance) and I thought there was something to learn either way (well as long as middle didn't get too upset when his cars got wet!) Here's the proud boat maker seconds before the launching.  And here's the launch:  He put it in and then screamed "It floats! It floats! It worked!" We then speculated about why it worked - was it the cardboard? air under the cardboard? Five minutes, ten mintues, twenty minutes later it was still floating. It never did sink.  Several hours later (still floating!), middle decided to take it out, remove the cardboard (it was in pretty bad shape) and out of sheer curiosity, put the the pencil box in by itself. And guess what, the pencil box floated too. Well up until little one splashed some killer waves and water got inside. Then they had fun sinking cars. :-) All in all a neat experience. I love that middle had an idea, thought it through and was creative. I loved his enthusiasm and curiousity. I loved the learning experience. And I love to see those wheels a turnin'.  |
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