David's Egg Drop

David's preschool co-op learned about "Eggs" this week. As part of the lesson, the teacher organzied an Egg Drop. All the children were asked to wrap an egg in materials they thought might support the egg when dropped from a high point.

We came up with an idea that used styrofoam cups. We put some heavy materials (keys, batteries, bolts) in the bottom styrofoam cup. Then we taped another cup on top of it and then stacked 5 more cups. Next, we put the egg in the top cup and packed it with rice cereal and finally taped one last cup on top.

Here was the result:


We even taped it up using David's special camouflage duct tape and wrote his name in spiky letters.

David climbed to the top of the slide and slung it over the side. We picked up his package, opened it up and found...


Way to go, David!

Trip to the Fire Station

This actually happened a thousand years ago (Jan 22nd) and I'm just now getting around to posting it. Because I'm slow.

We were studying Community Helpers for Stevie's preschool last month, and one of said helpers was "The Fireman." One of the moms (you rock, Christine!) organized a trip to the League City Fire Station for the kids, and it was lots of fun.

They started it off with a really cool explanation of the fireman's uniform. I say cool because it was very well-tailored to the kids in that they wouldn't be threatened by seeing this huge, mask-wearing alien suddenly approaching them.


They talked about some of the basics of fire safety, one of which was stop-drop-and-roll. (Is it just me, or is there something terribly sexy about fireman's uniforms? Now where can a civilian get one....hmmmmm).


The kids were (of course) most excited about the fire engines (Which were, admittedly, wicked awesome). The firestation manager did a great job explaining all the different functions and all the different tools to the kids.


They even got to sit in the driver's seat! David was the most impressed, and kept saying to me, "Mom, MOM! Did you take my picture yet???"



And lastly, our group picture. The firemen were nice enough to take a picture of all of us together, and even loaned us some ultra-fetching fire helmets.

(And I know what you're thinking---you've never SEEN such an enormous pregnant woman draped in fuschia look so hot---I'm telling you, it's the uniform).