Naked Eggs and Osmosis

A couple of weeks ago, the girls and I tried an egg experiment. First, we soaked an egg over night in vinegar and dissolved the shell. Then we scrubbed it down to get the remaining shell off. Then we did it four more times, because we kept breaking the egg. The egg was really full of water from soaking in the vinegar.



Next we soaked the egg in corn syrup to remove all the water. What we wound up with was a yolk with a membrane around it.

 

Now, to see if we can make it soak up water again. We dyed the water so we could see that it was the water inside, but we won't do that next time since after that we couldn't see inside.



Now we had a full egg again. We had a couple of more experiments to do with it, but we dropped it on the floor. But the water inside was blue!

 

Silliness

Tonight,  I was waiting for the girls to get their jammies on, and being silly. The the girls were in stitches laughing at themselves. Katie asked me to do it again, so she could video tape it and being the kind of mom who does all kinds of stupid things my kids ask me to do, here's what we got. I was teasing the girls about how they sound when they look at the new American girl catalog. Katie tells me how she needs everything, and Lizzy just whines that she doesn't have the A.G. pets to go with her doll.

Large wall hanging from rug stencil

I found this pretty wall hanging on Pinterest and decided to copy it. It turned out pretty good. I tried it with stain first, but it is hard to touch up stain, so I painted it all over and did it again. If you do use stain, I would definitely recommend using a spray paint primer before spray painting since it took nearly a whole can of paint to do the first one (which I re-did). The total cost was about $50 which includes the $20 rug. I plan to paint the rug and hang it elsewhere or use it at the front door so that helps. Not too bad for art that is 4' x 3'. If I did it again, I could use MDF since I didn't wind up staining it and it would be a bit cheaper. I think the wall needs something else, so maybe I'll put some kind of ironwork sconce beside it.

Daddy Daughter Dance

Theo took the girls to the Daddy daughter girl scout dance tonight. They looked so pretty. I even let them borrow my sparkley earrings and wear a bit of lipstick! Although it would appear that Lizzy swiped some extra lipstick after my back was turned. Even Theo looked handsome in his tie.

Salmon and Corn recipe

I am posting this here because it is the only way I know how to post my stuff onto pinterest. We had this yummy meal today for dinner. It was supposed to be a salad, but I heated it up and made a delicious main dish. The picture doesn't do it justice.

2 cups frozen corn

5-6 pieces salmon, baked or poached, or you could use canned

1/2 green bell pepper

1/2 red onion

1 TBS dried or more fresh mint

1/2 cup chopped cilantro leaves

juice of one lime (opt)

salt and pepper

2 tomatos cut into wedges

Bake fish til done. Fry onion, then bell pepper in oil. Add cilantro, mint, salt and pepper. Add corn and crumble in fish. Add lime juice. Fry til hot through.

Valentine's Cards

Worked on the girls' valentines today. I feel bad that I do most of it, but I console myself with the fact that they turned out really cute. I didn't come up with the idea, and I'm not sure where I saw it but someone is a genius. We made them a couple years back too.

Dallas Zoo

A couple of Sundays ago we skipped church and headed for the zoo. The weather couldn't have been more perfect. We had lots of fun. Hopefully we'll make it one more time before our membership expires.

Grandma Greta helped Katie with her science fair project this year. They extracted her DNA which is pretty impressive and if Grandma could have helped her to the finish, she might have won, but unfortunately, I had to take over and the science went downhill from there. 

Betty Bunny

Lizzy saw the bunny lovey I made and wanted me to make me one so I found another cute bunny pattern and just finished it for her. It is so adorable. I just love her little tail and panties!

Lizzy loves her! Of course, now that commits me to making one for Katie. We'll see how long that takes since I'm starting back to school now. 

Knitting

I got a knitting bug a couple of weeks ago and started a baby blanket for a friend and I actually finished it! Yay for big needles and a simple pattern!

Neiman Marcus Windows

Since the tubes were closed when we went during the evening, on Friday, we went back to go inside the windows with some friends. We took the light rail downtown which the kids always enjoy. They especially enjoyed the ride back which was standing room only, turning down every seat offered in favor of standing.

Unfortunately it was hard to get a good picture with all the glare.

After they crawled though the windows about 10 times, we headed inside. Nieman marcus is a scary place to take kids! But luckily no one broke anything. I'm sure they were glad to see us leave. 

Christmas 2011 Part Four - Riding the Trolley

The day after Christmas, we decided to go downtown and ride the trolley.

First, we stopped at Village Burger Bar for some hamburgers and lemonade. 

The trolley is lots of fun for the kids and free except for tips! 

When we came to the end of the line, we hopped off and walked 6 blocks down to Main St.

They had a pretty tree which changes colors or snows if you send it text messages. Of course, my phone battery was dead. 

Next, we played in the park for a bit on these really cool spinning toys that I haven't seen before. They were lots of fun and even Theo and I rode them.

We walked a block down to Nieman Marcus and took a look inside their famous windows.

They had really cool tubes for the kids to crawl through, but they were closed.

Then after a long (why is the walk back always longer?), cold walk back to the trolley we headed home.