Bubbles, Cheese Toast, and Eggs oh My!

So, last evening was a ton of fun. Took the kids outside to play with bubbles and run around in the yard since it wasn't so ungodly hot out. And since they were fairly well behaved, throughout the day it was a nice treat for them. Emily though kept trying to eat the bubble solution. Granted, I'm sure they smelled good since I had picked up the scented bubbles, but they were not meant for eating.

Sitting on the steps blowing bubbles

Kevin blowing bubbles for Emily to chase

Getting tired from running around

All in all it was a really good evening with the kids. It even wore them out enough to not fight over things all night in their room. It was great!

Then today, I made an awesome snack for them that I had found on Pinterest. I love that site so much. Spend so many hours on there. But it was a mozarella, tomato, onion toast thing. Well I had the mozarella and the bread and figured that would work as well. So put thick pieces of mozzarella on bread, put it in the oven, and set it to broil. And when it came out I sprinkled a little bit of garlic salt on top and yummy!

YUMMY!

Also, yesterday evening the kids and I started an experiment with an egg, another thing I had found on Pinterest. Called the Naked Egg. Take an egg, put it in a cup/bowl, and then fill it with vinegar until the egg is covered. The acid in the vinegar eats away at the calcium on the egg, so you let it sit for about a day or overnight and the shell should be gone. 

Egg in the Vinegar

Then today, we took another bowl, dumped the vinegar out, and I wiped off the rest of the shell that was left. And all that was left was like the membrane of the egg with the yolk inside. It felt similar to a bouncy ball. 

Naked Egg!

One thing I've learned today that if you have any open wounds, in my case it was a hang nail that had caught on something at work and started bleeding, the vinegar buuuuurns. So gloves of some sort might be advisable. The kids found it extremely fascinating that the egg had no shell, at first they were afraid to touch it. But then we put it in water because in water it can get bigger due to osmosis or something like that. I'm not very sciencey, I just like the experiments. 

Both of them playing with the egg in the water

The egg is also somewhat bouncey so it got tossed a couple of times as the kids fought over it. 

"The egg is mine!"

Eventually though, to much playing with it caused it to splatter when it fell on the ground. 

SPLAT

I also recommend that one does this on a surface that is not carpet. Heh, but the egg wasn't to terribly bad to clean up. The kids were upset when it splattered, but maybe eventually we'll do it again and I'll make two eggs, one for each of them. 

All in all, the kids have had a couple of fun filled days. We might even make a cake tonight and put nerds in the batter and make our own funfetti cake, another Pinterest find. I swear, if you aren't on Pinterest, you should check it out. So many recipes and ideas and fun things to do on there. 

Have a nice night everyone!