Thursday, May 03, 2012

Spring Break 2012


We spent the break doing LOTS of fun activities...

...we visited the children's museum with 'Oria and her momma (Marcia aka Gramma Cici)



 
The crane was a total hit.  
 
Look at all those organic items!! (read: one thing I love about living here.).

 
 
 
 








...we made grapes float in water and learned all about density.  


We increased the density by adding sugar to glass #2. Then we made it appear to float in glass #3 by putting the sugar water on the bottom and regular water on the top.  

in glass #4 we decided to add salt to see if it also change the water.
This was such a FUN experiment, even little Nora enjoyed it.





We made ice cubes boil (discovering liquid, solid and gas and learning about thermodynamics).

 


 ...created an indoor dog park
 
 
(Chris' response to this picture: "Why did you take a picture? She was putting dog food ON THE FLOOR." My response to him: "HA! Sometimes you just let them be kids and explore.)  :)


... and we visited the Vancouver Aquarium... 
 
 The boys loved the Beluga whales.



and Stanley Park in beautiful British Columbia with our good friends, Caleb and Tracy...





We had a wonderful break! 

2 comments:

Katie said...

Hey! How come they slept in the car on that vacation!? :) We totally got gypped!

You are an amazing mom, Jamie. Just amazing.

Smitty 1, 2 , 3 and 4 said...

Thank you, Katie! You are right... we were totally gypped. :)