December 17, 2014

• Where There's Smoke...

  There might be a science experiment going on.

  I wasn't paying much attention to the older boys this morning, but now that I think about it, I did hear them saying that they needed mirrors from the science supplies so they could do something with laser pointers. I wasn't convinced that they would find everything they thought they needed so I didn't question them about what they were doing. I did hear them going through the science box and I was aware that they had found a magnifying glass, but I still wasn't paying much attention. I did see Justin standing near the window holding a piece of paper, but he wasn't there long and I went on my merry way.

  Some time later, while I was reading to Joseph, Justin came to me with the camera and said, "you want to see the pictures I've been taking?"

  

  I took a look and sure enough an experiment had been going on under my oblivious nose. And it had been documented.

  

  This evening, I glanced into the bathroom where Joseph was in the tub and he called out, "Hey, do you see the smoke?" I skidded to a stop to take another look but I didn't see any smoke. We investigated a little and decided that he was just seeing some steam rising off his arm. There was no smoke, but after the morning experiment, I did want to make sure that there wasn't a fire in the bathroom.

  • 10:14 pm
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