Treehouse

So after a couple of years of talking about it, and after promising the kids that this would be the year, we have built a tree house.

These kids aren't just posing with the drills, they were actually drilling holes and putting in screws with them. I was going to take them to the park, and they all voted to stay home and work on the treehouse. We made some good progress.

Jaime, our neighbor, was a great help and is seen here doing some measuring and marking for the vertical pieces.

We still have to do the railing on the west side, and add a rope bridge to connect to our nearby play structure, hopefully a pole to slide down on, and maybe a rudimentary pulley for hoisting stuff up and down. One day a zip line, I hope. The kids have a password for getting up, I can't tell you what it is, though. They'll tell you, if you come.

Addi and Jaime being pals.

Buoyancy

"I'm studying buoyancy!!" Olivia beamed and dashed back into the bathroom.  She kept showing me things she was going to test for their buoyancy and then went back in.  Here you see some of her experiments.

In other news, the other day the kids made a kite.  I'm afraid it never flew, and I talked to them about some things that would improve it (stronger material, instead of pieces of paper taped together, and a lighter string (they had rope).  The colored side was beautiful, though.  They'll get it.