Six Months

Happy half birthday to Oliver!

Finally we get sleep! It took five and a half months but Oliver is finally sleeping more...still not through the night, but most nights I'm only up for a total of an hour if he is healthy. I'm so happy! Oliver's also doing a great job learning how to sit up and talk. I can't just set him down and leave him yet because he will topple over, but he likes to sit and grab his toys. His newest sound is da-da-da-da-da and Robert is so happy that he keeps saying dada every time he sees his Daddy (I didn't tell him that he says it to everybody).

Doing Something Sciency

Yesterday morning Isabel comes to me and says "Momma, I want to do something sciency". Um, okay. Definitely our child, but where the heck does she come up with this stuff (the answer to that is TV)? Luckily I had read this blog and at least had something we could do quickly and easily. We checked out what happened when we put colored water together. Then we used a dropper and dropped the colors on coffee filters to watch them mix. When we finished that she still wanted to do something sciency so we mixed finger paints and tried to mix pieces of construction paper to see if we could make new colors (we couldn't). All in all, I would say we had a very successful morning full of fun science projects and now Isabel can tell you what color you get when you mix blue and yellow...apparently the other colors weren't important.

If anyone has any other ideas for science projects for three-year-olds, let me know, I have a feeling this request might come up again.