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Celtic Warriors

Taken from STOW:

"The Celts were known around the world as fierce, brave warriors.  The ancient Greek geographer, Strabo, said of the Celts, "The whole race... is war mad".  Before going into battle, the men would paint blue swirling patterns all over their bodies.  They believed that the patterns had mystical powers and would protect them from harm during the battle.  To make themselves look even fiercer, they used mud and clay to spike out their hair in all directions.  It must have been a scary sight to see:  hundreds of blue-painted men holding double-headed axes, screaming, yelling, and running toward you."

I don't know about hundreds... but these three are pretty terrifying!

 

Science Friday

The boys are loving science fridays, me, not so much.  I just don't like oodles and oodles of dishes and uncovered liquids.  But, the boys continue to teach and I continue to learn and sometimes their way really is the best *smile*. 

 

 

 

 

**Edit: Hmmm might help is I said what we were doing hu!  The experiment was to taste the glasses to see if they were sweet or sour.  Then to poor the purple cabbage juice in and record the change.  So is it a base or acid.  *smile*  Thanks Amy for reminding me that people read this and want to know just what we are doing.** 

Science Friday

We love NPRand being HUGE fans of Science Fridays we decided to show our own science Fridays. 

 

  

   

 

 

It took us awhile to find the perfect books to teach us Chemistry but we are set and loving Fridays full of experiments.  (Well Meme just likes messing with science... and lets face it marshmallow people are pretty awesome!)

goodbye + hello

 

Dusty said good bye to us... Meme was devastated.  He held a very touching funeral for him, with a long eulogy and all.

Not long after the 'flush' goodbye like all kids he bounced back quick and started talking about his new fish.

Welcome Chime

        

Welcome Magi

...life goes on.

**Don't ask about the awful picture of Chime.  I spent a good 10 minutes adjusting the setting on the camera... cussing out the camera, cussing out the flash, cussing out the tank, and I even cussed out the poor fish a bit.... needless to say... the pic is horrid, and I need to quit cussing**

My son the Hamster

No not this kind...

THIS kind!   

JC passed his radio test and is now a Ham radio guy.  Way To Go!!

Now I just need one of these for the door... *grin*.

New Smiles

Roo has a bad cross bit right in the front so the dentist put a 'ramp' in to fix it.  So now he has a super looooong tooth that looks like it has a big chip out of it.   Funny stuff.  Also, JC wanted to show off what his expander looks like.    His space has come and is going back together he goes in on the 13th of August for his real braces.    Fun stuff at the Matschstickshouse :0)  ***again more Calvin and Hobbs pictures from my boys... they just can't make nice faces when they see the camera lol***

Haircuts

Meme is almost 5 (in 5 days...) and he cut his hair... again, sigh.  So I gave him a major hair cut to try and hide his snips.  (Yeah I know it didn't really work...)  Then Roo decided he wanted a major trim... no luck with JC, who wants 'skater' hair...YIKES!  I have to really wonder why one of my kids has to pull a 'Calvin'every time I get the camera out.  This little photo file must have 30 pictures in it and if I had been recording at the time you would have heard me begging and pleading for them to HOLD STILL FOR JUST 2 SECONDS! ahhhhhhhh ... sorry had to get that out.  *smile*

Unplug Your Kids Project: Plastic

So ya'll know my deal with plastic, and ya'll know my boys deal with plastic.  To say that we had to get very creative to stay with in our almost impossible guidelines for plastic use in our house is putting it mildly *smile*.  But, we did it!  This is our project for the week.   Oh, and if you want to get this crazy too... here is the tutorial that we used...

that's one big snake!

We learned about snakes today.  Longest recorded snake is a 100 ft Boa Constrictor... just how long is that?

Unplug Your Kids: Birds

A quick dash to the duck pond to see some wild life, feed the birds and spend some time with our spring nature books.  For more pictures check our flickr.  We love birds!  (Not sure why some of the scanned images came out so poorly... sorry)