on saturday, tommie took his homemade rocket to a boy scout rocket launch event. it was one of the requirements for the space exploration merit badge. which, wow... although there's a lot to it... i've woven the requirements into our homeschooling. works out nicely. it was a chilly, damp, windy and rainy afternoon... but that didn't stop the boys and their dads from jumping around with excitement, each time the rockets were launched. even though i'm not into how the rockets work... it was pretty exciting to see them soar up until you couldn't see them again. this experience has peaked tommie's interest in "setting things off with lighter fluid." he insisted we go to home depot and buy pvc pipes... he built some sort of launcher... used lighter fluid and cheap hair spray and set something flying. i think it was a tennis ball... i'm not sure. i am sure however, that he tied his cousins barbie doll to one rocket and tried to launch that through the pvc pipe. it didn't go very far, but it was pretty funny! did i just say that?

today in science, he'll be building an orange smoke bomb. something weird about building bombs in "school" and having your mom encourage it. well, i'm just saying.......