Archive for July 6th 2006

It’s a volcano..can’t you tell? Liam decided today, out of the blue, that he wanted to make a volcano today out of bread and spaghetti sauce (for the lava). I decided what the heck, let’s do it. So we pieced together a volcano and he poured the sauce on top. We then added baking soda and vinegar and…kaboom…we had ourselves a volcano. He thought it was great so made another one with more baking soda and vinegar. He was pretty impressed with the whole thing, but now my driveway smells like vinegar.

We have had so much fun this past week with our extended family from New York; my oldest brother and his family came to visit us. Liam and Colm couldn’t get enough of them and the girls were so good with them. They played Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, Dragon Tales, went swimming, played hide-and-seek and read stories together. We really look forward to their visits since we don’t get to see them very often.

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Our chocolate experiment is working. I stole an idea from Family Fun magazine and we are enjoying the results. We love chocolate and we have had a lot of family members traveling recently, so we asked them to bring us back some chocolate. So far, we have chocolate from Brazil, Toronto, Spain and France. We are saving the wrappers and pinning the wrappers to a map so we can remember where they came from. I think we will also keep a chocolate journal so we can remember when we got them, who got them for us and what the chocolate tasted like.