The New Year brings two things for us.
The New Year and my husband’s birthday. He’s a New Year’s baby. Our oldest son is a Christmas Baby and our second born missed Valentine’s Day by just hours!
So yesterday we celebrated my knight’s 45th birthday with steak, homemade mac and cheese and a cake that has been officially named after him by our neighbors.
It was a good day. College football, a campfire, and steaks!
Last night I promised my son that we’d get into his YUCK canister. I found this at Hobby Lobby and would recommend it to anyone. What fun. Last night we made YUCK (just one of the things you can do with it).
We started by dumping a very small package of polymer crystals into this jar and adding warm water. It was amazing to watch the crystals grow to over 150 times their weight within an hour. (This is the stuff in disposable diapers are made of.)
By nine o’clock last night we had a jar full of these! Mushy, gushy, slimy glory! The kids loved it. As we read about polymer not only did we find out that they are simple strands of molecules that expand when you add water but we also found out that drought-ridden countries are using them to mix in the soil to water crops. Cool, huh??
On other notes, I’ve been playing with my latest toy……
A gift from my hubbie!
Sweet,huh?
No more photo processing on my laptop.
Have a great day ya’ll!
IN HIM,
I could use this for biology next year!
Oh, and happy birthday to your nusband.
He's such a sweetie to get you the new computer. I bet you're going to have tons of fun with it.
But back to the snot – do you do anything with it once it expands? Or is the fun of it just making it? It looks really neat.
I think I'm glad I don't have boys, so I don't have to play with yuck. Although intriguing, I think the shot of the list of things you could make with it, which including barf, ruined it for me.
Congratulations on the new toy. I am so glad for you that you don't have to work on photos on a laptop anymore!