Ivory soap in the microwave-cheap and fun

Since we don't have many friends in VA to call and play with. The days are getting a little long and so I have been trying to find fun science experiments to do during the day. We did Ivory soap in the microwave. The kids loved it and saved the last soap to show their cousin, Romie, that is coming this weekend. You would think the soap looks wet as it blows up and comes out of the microwave, but it feels like paper towels. You can break it up into dust and we made little soaps out of it. Christian thought the mountain of soap looked like Hoth on Star Wars so we took a picture of Luke in it. So fun!!  This was just 2 bars of ivory soap and we just added a little water to make it mold able and pushed it in cookie cutter and we colored it with food coloring.  To make the snowman we just dipped q-tips in food coloring and made everything on him.  We also just broke it up and made it snow outside and you could make it snow in a bath too.  CAUTION-vacuum or just wipe up before you wipe with something wet because it will get messy.

Fun times with the Bleodows

We had a lot of fun with the Bleodow crew while they were here. We went to Six Flags and lots of museums and just got to play fun games and introduce them to Uno attack. Six Flags we spent most of our time at the water park, but got to do a few kiddie rides. Funny thing is at the Air and Space by our house, Nic and Christian, found an open area and rolled up their maps and had a lightsaber fight and at one point Nic fell down to play dead and a security guard came over to see if they were OK and Nic opened his eyes and said, "I was just playing dead." We had a great time and hated to see them go

It overlooks Dulles airport and you can watch and hear air traffic control helping them land.

 Kids waiting for the elevator at the Air and Space to go down out of the tower and got a few more to watch Nic

THE BATTLE

 Fun at the House

 Six Flags

 Bugs foot prints-see the bunny ears

 Ball shooting place

First time tour of Washington with the Bleodows

Our friends from Texas, the Bleodows, already had a trip planned to DC and since we were moving here they decided to hang at our place. The Friday they were here we went into DC for a hot day of walking and seeing some of the sights. I let Jennifer take a lot of the pictures since I know we will be doing this tour a lot while we live here.  Next time, we vote for a bus tour!!

 On the Metro

 Two peas in a pod.  They got along great during the visit.

 Yes, the found a tree to climb

 WWII memorial

 Cooling off at the memorial

 Taking a break on the way to the Lincoln

 Christian what are you doing?  Being an eagle

 They loved playing in the sprinklers at the Lincoln and got soaked

 We all wanted to take the bus

 Yeah-lunch at 3:30

 Flying plane at the Air and Space

 He has to make the faces

 See your reaction time-Piper was a little slow

 Play in the dirt along the mall

 Metro stop

 on our way home

 Jillie and Piper acted like it was a roller coaster

 Wet at the Lincoln