Posted on September 14th, 2011 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Remember our science experiment book, Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes? Well, we now have an egg that has been unclothed. Caleb poured vinegar over a raw egg and let it sit for a week. At the end of the week, the acetic acid from the vinegar had completely eaten away the calcium carbonate eggshell, and […]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on tea parties and a friend named mia
To fill in the emptiness of Caleb’s absence, we’ve been partaking in lots of fun things such as tea parties, play dates, board games, and yes, even going out for artificially flavored ice cream (gasp). Yesterday Zia played with a new friend who just moved into the condos. The girls met on Saturday when David […]
Posted on August 13th, 2011 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Our days have been full of sun, water, squishy mud, fishing, friends, and picnic lunches. And ordering school supplies and books and building hydrogen fuel-cell cars and Cuisenaire rod towers. And reading lots of storybooks, history books, fact books, and one certain young man hogging the library’s microfilm machine for hours on end. And for […]
Posted on August 6th, 2011 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Zia went to her first dance class with her friend Catherine. She loved it, but unfortunately, it will be a little far from our new place. I’m sure we can find something closer to Boulder, now that I know she’s hep on the dancing thing. She picked out her outfit, as you probably guessed. (I […]
Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on friday {this moment}
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” -George Eliot