Stressed out kids....uggghh!

I thought we were going to have a rainy day today (Tuesday) and so planned accordingly. It was sunny. Oh well. I needed to clean the house.

This next picture is of a "throw up game" my aunt bought the kids for Christmas.

 We did some very simple "kitchen science." Baking soda and vineger rockets, volcanoes, etc. Eaden was a party pooper and just wanted to watch youtube instructional videos and make rubber band bracelets. Whatever.

 This next picture is of Taven right after the rocket shot up in front of his face.

Okay now on to Wednesday. You are going to have to excuse the fact that the kids are in the same clothes and they are really dirty...

It was supposed to be another rainy day, but it was actually just overcast. I guess all the rain came last night and overnight.

Mirek and Naia woke up a good hour and a half before Taven and Eaden. Here is Mirek reading.

 I went to Goodwill last night while Eaden was in gymnastics and found a Steve Spangler Laws of Motion science kit (brand new)!

 Each of the balloons has a different item in them (penny, marble and hex nut). The hex nut "screams" when you spin it around!

 This is Eaden trying to get a marble from the bottom of a test tube filled with salt to the top.

 Trying to get the hex nut to drop straight into the bottle.

 Magnets.

 We read a book yesterday about chickens and it talked about how strong eggs are. We decided to experiment.

 Eaden broke an egg wiggling too much and I decided to experiment with squeezing an egg (with what I thought was equal pressure on all sides) and it exploded all over the kitchen.

 Here is Taven playing with magnets again.

Stress free learning! I mention that because I have felt very sad lately hearing about how stressed out some kids are. Young kids. Stressed out from school, gymnastics, whatever. Learning should be fun! Gymnastics should be fun! Just let them be! Let them be...please.