Yesterday, during school, we talked about colors and the beauty that God has given us in Creation. Macie and I looked at some black and white pictures compared to some color ones and talked about what it would be like if life really looked like the black and white pictures. I asked her if she would like it if all of her clothes were grey, and if you know her at all, you know that her answer was an emphatic "NO!" hahaha!
We did a neat little experiment that I had seen on Pinterest, next....I thought it would be a perfect thing to go along with our color talks! I put some baking soda in a casserole dish and filled some little dishes with vinegar and food coloring. The girls had a great time choosing, mixing, and dripping colors into the dish......and were super excited about the fizzing that came along with it!
The girls were a little under the weather yesterday (super tired from Macie's dance recital the night before and Macie had a little fever) so this was a perfect, low key (relatively low mess) experiment for the day. Somehow, though, all of my droppers were gone, so we improvised. I think I'll try and round up a couple, so that the next time we do something like this, it'll be a little easier for them.
We're planning to get outside today and enjoy the beautiful world that God has blessed us with....I think I'll have Macie do a little color collecting, just to reinforce our talking about it. Thankfully, it's going to be a gorgeous day to do it!
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Friday, April 15, 2011
Rescuing Baby Robins
Bobby found a robin's nest that had fallen from it's branch while he was mowing this evening. Only one of the three eggs survived the fall. The ants had already gotten to the other two. Poor baby birdies. We put the nest and eggs into a shoebox until I would wield my mighty Google powers to see what we could do to save the one remaining egg.
Google (in all of it's incredible wisdom) told me to put the nest back in the tree and hope that the mama would come back. I stuck it back in a crook of branches as securely as I could without breaking the nest, and now we're just praying that the mama comes back to take care of her last baby.
Macie and I will be checking on the baby tomorrow to see if the nest survives tonight's storms. Hopefully we'll be seeing a baby robin soon!!
We've got another nest in the backyard that I haven't identified yet, but we'll be watching that one for hatchlings, too!!
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