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Sunday, February 5, 2012

More Rocket Launching Fun

Time to repack the rocket for round two.

Ready for the Countdown.

One pose before take off!

Lydia is the controller this time.

There she goes, went!

And here she comes back down, missing power lines both times by a narrow margin in the descent.

A couple weeks back, we took advantage of a free science tele-class on rocketry. Gabe made rubberband rockets that zip through the house and terrorize the dogs. He also wrote down directions and gathered supplies for a stomp rocket. His last need for the stomp rocket is a 2 liter plastic soda bottle. Those are scarce around our household. Gabe thought we'd have to go to a recycling center for one of those. Gabe plied me with the question for the umpteenth time, "Where am I going to get a soda bottle?" I told him we'd just find the cheapest soda at the grocery store and pour the soda down the drain. "You sure they have the 2 liter ones at the store; I've never seen them?" We haven't been down that aisle. Meanwhile, Marshal acted on the desire to build and launch a fire powered rocket with Gabe, as he had good memories of doing as a kid. So they ordered a rocket kit on Amazon and built it yesterday, Saturday. It was a beautiful day, and Gabe wouldn't leave Marshal alone until he made time to work on the rocket and almost in tears that he'd have to wait one more day to launch it. Today, the rocket was ready, so Super Bowl Sunday was Super Rocket Launch Sunday for us. Hope you can view the video and the excitement.

Friday, January 20, 2012

Having Fun with GAPS

Lydia and Gabe excited about making Friday night pizza!

They each made a pizza with a special grain-free crust.

Gabe's crust is ground almonds. Substituted almonds for the hazelnuts in the recipe.

Lydia made a coconut flour crust all by herself! The recipe is here.

Pizza sauce!

3 Sister's local grass-fed beef!

My little pizza chefs!

Looking good enough to eat!

Yummy!

Gabe Creations

"Mom, come out and see my creations!" Castle with a melting flag.

Snow Cave with teeth!

MONSTER Cave

Winter Storm 2012

Cold snowy day. We live in the banana belt or at least in a rain shadow, getting the mildest hit and always the least amount of precipitation of everyone else. Kids were happy to have just enough to have a good time in.

Got my toe in it! Actually crunched around in it yesterday afternoon before the sun went down, helping Gabe haul some firewood in the crisp cold air.

This puts "banana belt" in perspective. Don't think we'll be growing any bananas here. The kids are looking at the tropical rain forests of the world at this season.