Some of the other seeds are finally coming up. The only ones still hiding are the parsnips. Wondering what to do about the ‘greenhouse’ lids with the peas touching the top, I don’t want her healthy sprouts to start leaning over but worry if I take it off the ones that still need [Read more]
Our sprouts are growing like crazy already! Emeraude was so excited this morning when after just 2 days (for some, 3 days for others) she already had some great sprouts coming up. So far radishes seem to be the fatest growing by far, there are also some broccoli coming up as well as some peas. [Read more]
Emeraude & I began our gardening today (March 16,09). Last year we started all the veggies & flowers early indoors as well but I got over eager and we transplanted them outside too early – they froze and her beautiful healthy plants were mostly demolished (check my facebook page or [Read more]
Monday I decided to keep it simple. Lloyd was nice enough to realize we were loosing our day and after badminton he became a chef. When we came in from collecting our snow and before starting our experiments we were able to sit down at the table as Lloyd had even set the table perfectly in [Read more]
Emeraude is often asking to eat snow so I thought this was a good experiment to let her see for herself why I prefer that she doesn’t. She picked up these ‘ice balls’ from the side of the road and we intend to do the experiment again with some snow from the backyard. [Read more]
Jan.19.2009 Emeraude had tried adding coffee to her liquid glue the other day to make a picture that looked like dirt but the coffee disolved and looked more like mud. We found this very interesting and I suggested that we try to see what other kitchen ingredients might disolve when we added them [Read more]
Emeraude woke up from her nap with a plan… She began listing to me the ingredients we needed for a ‘kind of craft’. As I listened to her explanation of what we were to do, I realized what she wanted and explained to her that this was called an ‘experiment’. We [Read more]
