Pet Rock Experiment

Auntie LouLou gifted O with a crystal growing kit for his birthday. We could hardly wait to try it out! When we opened the kit, out fell a teeny tiny pair of blue safety goggles. When O saw them, he rushed to the play room yelling, "I need to find my work hat for this 'periment!"

I do believe I see just a bit of mad scientist in that Boy! Can you see it?

We gathered up all the random supplies called for (plastic bucket, 4 unsharpened pencils, white glue...all of which were listed in the supplies list; none of which we actually used) and got to work.

The kit also contained a magnifying glass. We have had so much fun closely inspecting things around the house!

We did so much mixing, boiling, dissolving, combining, magnifying...What was O's favorite part? Smashing the large rocks provided in the kit into smaller pieces for the crystals to grow on. That's what made the headlines when recapping to Daddy (which is the true test of what was special about the day!).

Experimenter O examining our crystal-growing tubs for any sign of a teensy crystal making its appearance. It has been a couple of days now with nary a crystal in sight. It makes me wonder if maybe we did need the bucket, pencils and glue for some crucial step we overlooked. We'll give our baby crystals a little more time and then re-evaluate.

And just because I want to record what O's writing looks like at 4 years old, here is his thank you note to Kyle and LouLou for the gift.