Scientific sunday.

As mentioned yesterday, Big is being kind of challenging atm. They ended up eating lunch outside today (not all that much of a hardship, with hindsight I should have relocated myself and left them in here!) because I couldn’t cope with the fighting, giggling, table rocking and so on.

It continued after lunch in much the same vein as before – so with the suggestion from Tim that Big was possibly bored, we set to to try to find some science experiments to do. This proved more difficult that you would expect, as even with the Cool Science box kit that I bought a few weeks ago, we still needed to find some stuff from around the house. And we couldn’t. So the first requested experiment, something to do with lunar eclipses and phases of the moon, got shelved until I can find a 5cm+ white ball that we can attach some kind of holder too.

The second experiment, to do with rubber bands contracting when heated, was remarkably unsuccessful too. (Remarkable, worthy of comment. That would be one I had to explain yesterday. I feel like a cross between a household chores robot, an entertainment centre and a walking thesaurus rather a lot of the time atm, and it’s not really cheering me up.) So we went for number three, to do with electricity and conduction.

Now, I’m hoping that very very soon, Big will have her own place to blog, and that part of what she blogs will be her experiments. I did want her to write a little bit up, even if it was only a list of keywords, but realistically, as she’s done most of the recording with a digital camera, it’s going to work better to add the words to the pictures, and hope it means something to her when she looks back. So I won’t go into great detail on this particular experiment, except to point out that the instruction pictures in the book are not clear at all, and that joining a circuit with your finger is quite painful.

So that probably took up the best part of a couple of hours, also adding in a quick camera using tutorial from Tim as we went. And then it started to rain, so we went out to get the rug back in from the fence where it was airing, and fetch the laundry as well.

Oh, and another learning outcome for the day – suitable outfits for little boys who are toilet training do not include waterproof dungarees, although at least it meant the sofa didn’t get wet. (And no, it wasn’t me who put the dungarees on him.)

And finally (for the moment, I’m not promising I won’t be back later) Small is finally big enough for the like-a-bike substitute. Well, he was once we put the seat down. He’s really rather chuffed with that, although I don’t think Tim aimed the camera at him during that moment. Shame really.