Me in Place

Am waiting for the season finale of Lost to finish taping so we can watch it (and skip commercials!) and I thought I’d take time to show you some photos from tonight’s after-dinner entertainment.

My 8 yo and I were hunting around on the internet and came across a site that suggested you use a microwave, a marshmallow and a bar of soap to teach kids about molecules turning in circles and thermodynamics and existentialiality and heating up and exploding er… something like that. We think Fruncle Roger needs to add this to the list of things he wants to do at home.

We experimented on the marshmallow first. Then we put the bar of Lever 2000 into the microwave. Here our excitement is building and we existentially wonder who the micros are waving at:

Here is our bar of L2000 being all molecular and heatin’ up:

And here is our finished sculpture, whom we refer to as Whale On Counter.

Note: Please do not try this at home if you are under the age of 18 and shouldn’t be messing up your momma’s microwave. (Although it didn’t mess anything up…except the smell of the house.) If you are over the age of 18, go ahead and throw caution to the wind and amuse yourself and your children (grandchildren) for a while. They will rise and call you awesome and be amazed that “mom can be funny and nice sometimes.” Which they might need to be reminded of since moms take things Awfully Seriously. Have some Excedrin on hand for the headache you’ll get from the overwhelming smell of soap you’ll have in your house all night. And, yes, the marshmallows work too. Just not as impressively.

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