The kids were asking questions about Mt. Rainier so we took some time to check some books out at the library about volcanoes, and watched a few erupting on YouTube (who'd have thought that website could be educational?!), and then made our own exploding volcano on the deck. Ammon was the diehard, sticking with it to the end, building it out of dirt, and then mixing the magic ingredients together for a huge overflow of orangey-red "hot lava", which we got on video. *note to future volcano builders: making your volcano out of mud is awesome, because you toss the whole mess back into the dirt pile instead of having a wet and yecky paper mache mess to clean up* wink wink...
To celebrate Pioneer day on July 24th, we didn't do TOO much, but I did get the garden cart out and the oxen (Ammon or I) took turns pulling around the pioneers, singing songs and talking about what it would be like to live before toilet paper and gasoline engines. (I would've perished for sure) We also made wagons out of graham crackers and marshmallows, which looked good in the Friend magazine, but didn't exactly work out for us. Nonetheless, we enjoyed the wagon making, with Ammon and Shayla's wagons missing their cookie wheels somehow (both denied eating them), Ammon's wagon ending up transporting a marshmallow robot across the plains, and Liam's wagon didn't get past initial construction, but he heartily approved of the ingredients.
Can you see the marshmallow robot? How about Shayla's sleeping bags and pink bags on her wagon? My wagon kept all it's wheels on for the photo, but I think now it looks like it was left unattended on a shady corner in the middle of LA.
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