Today we had a Snow-Day for both Andrew & Mike! It's "raining" ice, so it doesn't even look like anything is falling, until you look really closely.
Mike was going a little stir-crazy, so he looked online for some science experiments to do with the boys. First we made plasma by frying grapes in the microwave. You cut a grape almost completely in half (just attached by the skin), dab the exposed middles with a paper towel to dry them off, then cook it openfaced in the microwave for 10 seconds. The electrical-like "fire" is awesome to watch! All my brothers, (and all my sisters) should definitely try this! (You should probably get parents permission first, if it's not your own microwave :-) 
The next science experiment was to make Flubber! Luckily we had an ant problem a while back, so I bought some Borax to make a natural poison to get rid of them (it worked too!). So, the recipe, from http://www.thenakedscientists.com/, said to use Borax, Elmer's Glue, and a little water. The stuff is really cool! It's got to be the same stuff we used to buy from the quarter machines in the grocery stores when we were growing up! Mike even decided to dye it green (after I took these pictures). We had lots of fun with it!
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