Liquid, Solid, Liquid and Visa Versa

These two sisters are sharing again. Just not the kind of sharing we like to see.

Lauren shared her runny nose, her sneezes, her cough and her fever with Hailey.

Now, you tell me, how sweet is that? Hmph.

So I had both girls home today...a whole week without a single hour alone in my house. A preview to summer?

So today we did some Liquid to solid and back to liquid then some solid to liquid and back to solid...

We started with Ice Boats - I have to admit these were WAY FUN!












Then we moved on to Chocolate Circles. These were fun for the girls - and yummy too!











So here's hoping everyone goes to school next week! With my luck our school will get a case of the "today's name flu" and close for a week!

How can tomorrow come

How can tomorrow come if today never ends?

Lauren is still home - her fever has broke but at this point she will just stay home till monday. No sense in going back for Friday - we already have her work and well who knows who has been kissing pigs around that school right?

(photo credit: Originally - I have no idea but I got it from my friend Lindsay)

Lauren is almost finished with 3 days of school work - so we had to get crafty again today! I was still using the Book of Know How from Usborne and today we made Witches Brew and Fairy House Collages. The witches brew was WAY COOL! And the collages were fun but ours were not so Fairy-esque.

Gettin Crafty With it

First...Let me remind everyone that today(Thursday) is the LAST day of Usborne April over at Tales from the Nightstand.

It has been a fun month for me because I love children's books! Paige has been a wonderful sponsor to work with and the new people I have "met" have been amazing. Take a minute and read the last couple posts as we close out a super month!

Second - if you follow little ole me on twitter you know I had the girls at the Dr. today.

This morning "HE" asked Lauren how she was feeling her answer was:

"Not as good as I felt the day before yesterday"

I am happy to report we do NOT have the influenza (swine, bird, Asian, hong kong or housepet). Lauren does have an upper respiratory infection and confined to home until the fever breaks and the pandemic passes parents say it is ok to go back!

So, I have posted a lot about Hailey being a trooper, amazing at the Dr. etc. Lauren, NOT SO MUCH. Today when they went to swab her for Influenza (thanks to CDC guidelines) she screamed and hid in the corner, so much that our beloved Dr. looked at me and said "I'm handing this one off to the nurses" - Hey thanks doc - I love it when my 8 year old embarrasses me in front of multiple medical personnel. At which point little Hailey says

"Lauren, Lauren, Listen to me Lauren - I will hold your hand!"

My heart melted.

Lauren got swabbed and I got ready to leave - but "NO wait - you can't leave till we get this tested!" and the nurse left and shut the door and suddenly I was TOTALLY CREEPED OUT. Reality hit, if that little red testy thing says INFLUENZA then they will pry send us out of here in masks and call it a SUSPECTED Case and send it off to the WHO for further testing and that would just be crappy in so many ways.

But it wasn't and they didn't and we are home trying to pass some long, unexpected days. So this afternoon we got Crafty With It! Yes we did. I got one of my Favorite Usborne Books (the Book of Know How - reviewed today on Tales...) and a crafting we went:

We were learning about Centrifugal force and made these lovely spinners

(you can almost SEE her fever in the above shot)

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Paas-itively Beautiful

Thanks Cheryl for the Pass word play inspiration! (always give credit where credit is due)

Tonight we embarked upon Egg Dyeing...Emerson Girls style.

That means we strip the table down to the felt pad

make seperate sets of everything for each girl

get out the jar of wet wipes for one girl

and get busy!

Not hard to guess who made which eggs eh?

Do you eat your eggs after they have been dyed? I have awful food aversions and can't - But Lauren wants to...YUCKY says I!

Desperately Seeking LEGOLAND?

(Wordless Wednesday - the rest of the story)

Are you wishing you lived a little closer to a LEGOLAND? Or maybe you do and just don't want to pay the $85 admission price? Well, Do I ever a have a solution for you!

It is simple really. Just invite Lauren to live with you! Yup. Your Living room can be magically transformed to a mini LegoLand in no time!

Lauren LOVES Legos. Not just any Legos, but the hard to find, very expensive kits made for adults. She is currently building the Lego Town Plan and wants to do the Eiffel Tower next!

She gets pretty serious about her building, seperating pieces, laying it all out and then she gets down to building business

She has been known to work for 2 hours without a break!

She has made a gas pump island

To go with the Car Wash she built

A Central Park Bench with fountain

A fire truck (the doors work!)

A squad car (to pull me over when I don't wait 7 seconds at a stop sign)

A movie theater (this one is awesome)

And a....well - this is a? Hmmm. What do you call this?

Oh, I know - this is a "I have to make something for Hailey so she will leave my stuff alone!" (notice Rock is still in play here too)