Monday, January 8, 2018

Egg experiments and snowy days


Katrina and Zane went back to school on Thursday. They were SO hoping for a snow day, but although it was really cold, there was almost no snow to keep them from having school, much to everyone's disappointment. According to Katrina, there were a LOT of kids who were missing from class both on Thursday and Friday, so apparently a lot of families that were on vacation just skipped the stupid 2-day week.

Our friend Keren was in town this weekend, so she and Beth came over for pizza on Friday. We all agreed that it would be totally lame to watch a movie when we never get to see her, so instead we just talked a lot and played a game and talked some more. Yay! Friends!

Zane has been doing experiments with eggs. One egg, mostly. It's gone through several stages now. The first stage was to put the egg into a glass of vinegar and just let it sit there dissolving the eggshell. Zane was extremely suspicious about this process and was delighted with it actually worked. By the second or third day of being in vinegar, the eggshell had completely dissolved and the egg was all rubbery and weird.


Stage 2 was putting the egg into water so that it could get even more filled up with water. Zane wanted to add food coloring to the water, so the egg got giant and also got red. (If i were doing this experiment myself, i'd totally have left the egg un-colored, because now we can't see the inside. I might suggest doing it with another egg for that very reason.)


Stage 3 involved putting the egg into corn syrup and then leaving it for 2 days again. Corn syrup apparently has very little water in it, so osmosis makes all of the water in the egg flee out of the egg, leaving the egg totally squishy and fold-able and weird. Except for the yolk, with is totally hard. It's the weirdest thing.


Stage 4 was simply putting it back into water to see if it would re-hydrate, which it totally did in only a couple of hours. Eggs are weird, y'all.

ANYHOW.

It snowed last night, the kind of snow that is perfect for sledding and snowman-making and packing in general. Plus it was almost warm - the kind of a winter day that actually makes you want to go outside rather than staying inside curled up under blankets on top of the heater. Zane and Katrina (and Juanito) wanted to go sledding, and i sort of made Houston come along for the walk, because he didn't want to sled and really would rather have stayed home and i am a meanie. Except that then he totally had fun and used the fancy snowball-maker/launcher to throw snowballs for an hour until his hands got freezing cold because he wasn't wearing gloves. (What is WITH my kids?! Houston and Zane keep leaving the house without a coat too. This is Michigan, you guys! It is cold! Wear a coat!)

Katrina and Zane went up and down the hill for forever. Zane's friend Phineas and a couple of his siblings came out to go sledding with them, and by the time they got home, they were soaked and freezing and exhausted and happy. Juanito and Katrina tried to make a snowman, but it kept falling apart, so Katrina gave up and went back to sledding, and Juanito gave up trying to roll it and just built it up on the park sign.


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