Magic and Mayhem

Today was Friday the 13th so I decided to make it a little extra special.  I told the kids we’d do a different fun thing every hour.

Here’s some highlights….

~ Cake for breakfast

~ A trip to the library with Dad (okay, for my kids it’s a really fun thing! They can load up on even more books to devour and they get to play on the computer there.)

~ New Sigg bottles (I turned in our beat up, old ones under their exchange program for new BPA-free ones and they just happened to arrive today)

~ Face painting (other than Victoria, the kids mostly did their own– can you tell???)

~ Pop rocks

~ Cardboard painting (this is just a fraction of the masterpieces they painted and they were so gorgeous)

~ Cake decorating (I am usually one of these all-natural, healthy moms who makes kids crazy so today was bliss for these kids!  I used stuff from the cupboards that I’d had for years!) 

~ Liver experiments???  Ahem.  You may not want to look at these next pics!  I had some liver in the freezer that my fabulous friend Erica gave us last spring.  I mostly cook vegetarian but I cooked some up for Daryl tonight and asked the kids if they’d like to use a small piece for science experiments.

I reminded them how we use hydrogen peroxide to get blood stains out of things, and asked if they wanted to experiment with how hydrogen peroxide would react on a whole piece of liver.  They loved the idea and I gave them each a tiny piece of liver, a little bowl of hydrogen peroxide and a pipette.

Poor Victoria is a vegetarian and it made her a bit sick to her stomach!  She still loved doing it, though.  Science is science!

Afterwards, I let the kids experiment with dropping drops of the hydrogen peroxide right on the plate where all the liver had been and onto the blood.  Ew!    Again, very educational though!

Want to know what’s going on with hydrogen peroxide and blood?  Here’s a good explanation.  I learned a thing or two!

~ And lastly, we watched a DVD about cold blooded creatures (mostly lizards, tortoises, frogs and iguanas so far) that was delightful, beautifully photographed and very educational.  Even Alex liked watching it!

It was a really fun day!