The great Tootsie Roll experiment.

Mr. Owl how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie roll Tootsie Pop? ah 1, ah 2, ahhhh 3..... :)

It doesn't take much to entertain us. We decided to stay in our jammies and explore the Tootsie Roll Tootsie pop debate.

First we headed on over to the Tootsie Roll industries and took a virtual field trip. (http://www.tootsie.com/gal_tour.php). Then we tried a little experiment ourselves....

K is ready for mom to put down the camera so he can get to business.

The baby never finished this experiment due to the fact that he had ants in his pants. Cabin fever has set in with this one so, it could be weeks before we get his conclusion.

E. keeping track of her licks

The conclusion it took K 470 licks to reach the center

It took sweet E. 335 licks to reach the tootsie center.

10 years in the blink of an eye.

10 years ago on this same night at 9:12 pm I gave birth to a beautiful little baby girl! She was perfect! 10 years later she is beyond perfect and makes my heart go pitter patter. She sings loudly to Beatles albums (yes the albums...her record player is her greatest love). Her room is full of construction paper and glitter due to the fact that she is a tiny little Martha Stewart wanna be. She talks a mile a minute and she giggles like a crazy person. I couldn't imagine a minute without her.

Happy 10th birthday sweet girl!!!

Disheveled housewife and change....

Okay, I admit it. I am a sucky blogger. I mean a really, really sucky blogger. I came back to look at my blog today and noticed dust bunnies and spider webs hanging from every corner. My life has taken over and I haven't had time to breath, let alone write a word or two.

My life has been taken over by homeschool and making a wonderful life change. We have decided to pack up our home and throw out the clutter. We are starting over in a little cabin in the woods. Our life has been hectic and out of sorts for the past year. We have decided that we need a start fresh so we can enjoy our lives to the fullest. So... our adventure will be starting in the next few weeks...*weeeeee* I'm so excited! But until then it's pretty much packing and living out of boxes. I look forward to recording our new life here and watching the change.

Playing with silhouettes

Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
~Terri Guillemets

Rainy day You Tube fun....

I heart faces....Fix-it Friday

original photo

This is my first time trying out the fix-it friday and I had tons of fun working with this sweet little guys photo!

Okay the details of my fix- it are as follows....

First off I used my PS7.0 in order to work with this photo. Once in PS I used one of my fav-or-ITE actions from the ever cool pioneer woman. If you haven't seen her actions you really should check them out!!! The action I used on this photo was called colorized. I loved how it left the rosy tint to his little cheeks.

The Disheveled Housewife plays homeschool Tuesday....

Somewhere over the rainbow...

Today we mixed simple household items and made our own personal rainbow. The lesson was geared towards learning about the color wheel and seeing what happens when primary colors (red, yellow and blue) are mixed together to make secondary colors. (purple, orange and green).

First we find all our ingredients and throw them out on the table....

1 cup o' milk...

carefully pour that 1 cup o' milk in the bowl...careful not to slosh...

Three drops of red food color is squirted by a squirt towards the outer edge of the milk...

Next the squirt, squirts three blue drops of food color about 1/3 away from the red....still on the outer edge.

Now we grab the yellow and get to squirting three drops 1/3 away from the blue....

See all three drops, hanging out in a bowl of milk.

Mkay...the squirt is getting restless now and a little antsy about the fact that we are playing with his all time, favorite, coolest of all drinks...Milk....

But I talk him into grabbing a bottle of dish liquid....

We plop one drop of dish liquid right smack dab in the middle of our milk....

Then we wait for the show to begin....Ooooo....Ahhhhh.....Ooooo La, La...

After a few moments we are looking at our own personal rainbow...do you see the reds, oranges, blues, purples, yellow and greens? CooOool!!!!

Now you try it!!!