Daddy: What did you like about the bubble festival? Be specific.
Leslie: It was fun. Be blew through these bubble skeletons. We blew bubble mirrors.
Peter: We got to get all messy. We had the bubble wall. We did hand shakes through the bubble wall.

Daddy: What did you learn about bubbles?
Leslie: You can make a lot of fun stuff to do with bubbles. You can make your own things and it will be real cool. You can do it more often.
Peter: Bubbles like wet; they don’t like dry. In the triangular bubble skeleton, if you blew just the right amount it would come apart then go back together.
Leslie added: Bubbles like wet because they are made out of wet. They do not like dry.

Daddy: Do you guys remember about surface tension?
Leslie: Bubbles join together because of surface tension.
Peter: I think that surface tension is pretty neat. It pulls wet stuff together. Rivers create by surface tension. I think that’s pretty neat. Somtimes in whirlpools there are lots of bubbles.

Peter asks Daddy: Do you think your pictures have all the bubbles in them?
Daddy: No way. You guys made too many bubbles for me to take a picture of each one.

Peter asks: Do you think you can see the bubbles in all of your pictures?
Daddy: Some of the bubbles were hard to see in my pictures. I didn’t put those pictures on the blog.

Those Kapla blocks were fun to build with. We built the base of a big, tall tower. There were about two hundred blocks in there. We built it up, then it fell. Over and over again, it just fell, fell, fell. We had to make the base littler so the thing worked. It worked with the smaller base. It only fell once. Once we got going, it just got higher, and higher, and higher, and higher. Each row Dad took a picture. See the pictures below.

Daddy: What did you learn?
Peter: It takes lots of practice. You have to spin the wheel before you do anything, even the sponge. Sometimes it has bumps so you keep on pressing it. I showed Dad the bumps before anything bad happened.

Daddy: What did you like?
Peter: I liked the feel of the clay. I liked getting my hands dirty and greasy. I liked spending time with just my Daddy.

Daddy: Do you have plans for more pottery?
Peter: The next time I’m not gonna make a flower pot. I’m gonna make it smooth and like a cup.

Daddy: What are your plans for that pot?
Peter: I think I gonna paint it blue. But I might paint it red or yellow or black or white. I am going to plant a flower in it.

• flax oil
• vanilla
• strawberry
• milk
• honey
• banana
• raspberry

Questions before we start:

• I wonder how it works?
• How does it change your voice?
• How does a speaker work?

Here’s what we did.

First, we had to get out the pieces. Then we got the capacitor and those other things… but I forgot. We connected the wires. All the bare metal we had to cover with tape. We connected the speaker with the yellow wires. We put a cap on the battery. We put it into the other half, into a rectangular shaped thing that holds the battery. It was hard to put together. We tried to speak through the top; but it didn’t work. But the bottom worked. There’s a robot voice, a scary monster voice, a squeaky voice, but the other one I can’t remember.

Answers:

Q: I wonder how it works?
A: First the sound waves from your mouth go into electric things. One is a capacitor. Then those electric cords go into a thing called a speaker.

Q: How does a speaker work?
A: The speaker has wires that connect to the magnet. The magnet jiggles back and forth. And then those wires jiggle the cardboard back and forth.

Here’s Peter voice changer in action.

just pictures…

Sorry, no story today. Just a slideshow. Enjoy

just pics…

In the morning my Dad was going to offer if we would like to build a rocket. So we did. We had to put lots of stuff onto the rocket. It took a long time to build it. And then my dad said, “It’s all finished.” Except… don’t forget to put the stickers on! Then we wanted to blast it off. So we hopped in the car and drove to the park. We took all our stuff out. Peter took the big launch pad; but it wasn’t heavy. We set it up for blastoff; but it didn’t take too long.

Daddy pressed down a button and counted, “FIVE – FOUR – THREE – TWO – ONE!” Then Peter pressed the launch button. It blasted off a thousand feet high! That’s pretty tall. The parachute popped out; and it flew pretty fast over the whole park. Peter and Daddy had to run fast. But this is the sad part… We lost it, either in the river or on the other side. We don’t know???

Next time we won’t put as much fuel in it!

Peter and Leslie’s story:

We biked to Hallmark. Hallmark had toys. We didn’t know there was candy. Hallmark sells fudge, and things made out of crystal. What Peter wanted was this really cool radio control car; but he didn’t have enough money. What he got was a sugar cane. It was flavored like strawberry. It was red. This candy wasn’t ordinary. It was super good. Leslie and Peter each gave Charlene one dollar; but that wasn’t the price. We forgot what it cost. Peter guesses that it was 35 cents.