Elliott Times: Wild Weekend!

Above is Ashley a couple of Sundays ago-wearing a new to her dress from the Killingsworth girls! Thank you!

Scott with his new/bigger euphonium this school year. It weighs nearly 20 pounds and of course the band room is on the 4th floor at school. He is continuing to enjoy band though-Greg and I have talked about how the long uniform pants make him look so much older!

Ashley's class has been talking about air in science. They made parachutes in class recently with a paper towel, stickers, and string and for homework had to make one with different materials. Below is what we made.

Here is Ashley throwing her doll out the window-didn't work too well-it was too far to throw her out before she actually started going down because of the roofline

2nd drop zone-it was a fun project and no dolls were harmed (too much) in the filming of this process!

We did doll parachutes on Friday afternoon, watched Sean the Sheep cartoons on Friday night-if you have never seen it, it is a really funny British cartoon.

On Saturday am, Scott was picked up by a friend to go on his first Boy Scout campout. They went to a school near Subic Bay and camped for 1 night. They swam, played dodgeball, volleyball, and Scott's favorites were archery and tomahawk throwing! He got home on Sunday afternoon with a sunburn, smelly clothes, minus 1 sleeping bag but a big smile on his face. Then had to get to work pretty quickly on a powerpoint presentation about a city (he chose Vancouver) for Social Science class that was due Monday.

While Scott was gone, we had scuba class at home.

Here is Ryan going under and Ashley is breathing off his extra regulator-she doesn't want to miss out on ANYTHING that the boys are doing!

On Sunday afternoon, we finished Ashley's rocket for school-made from soda bottles and decorated and also held together with Hello Kitty duct tape-thanks for a great Christmas gift from Grammy last year! They are going to launch rockets on Wednesday at school-you fill the bottom with water and launch it from a launch pad-cool idea that Ashley's teacher found on you tube, just search baby scientists bottle rocket and you can see how to make one and watch them launched.

This is not how PADI teaches to put on weight belt but I had told Ryan not to drop it on his foot or the pool tiles

day 2 of class, putting on his own gear-he is not taking a real class-junior certification doesn't begin until age 10 but I rented a tank, weights, and a bc for him from our local scuba store.