Today, Berit and Griffin and I went on a "bus adventure." It was a beautiful day, so we walked to a bus stop not far from our house and grabbed a bus from Lafayette into Boulder where we walked over to the YMCA and went swimming for about an hour. Then food at Whole Foods, after which Pam and Rowan rendez-voused with us to spend the rest of the adventure at the playground.

Griffin is very advanced.

Berit's pinhole camera photos:

Thursday night is the science fair at Berit and Rowan's school. Both of the girls did great with their projects, learned a lot and had fun.

Rowan picked a project about natural dyes. She took cabbage, red onion skins, and cherries and boiled and mashed them until the dye seaped into the water in the pot, and she dyed some cotton strips to see which of them made the best dyes.

Berit made a pinhole camera out of an oatmeal can and took some pictures. That, in itself, was pretty cool. But then we went to the darkroom rental place to develop them, and we ended up getting a 2 hour lesson in how to develop black and white paper in the dark room. It was fascinating, and Berit ended up doing all of her own work there. I swear to you I could drop her off at the darkroom tomorrow with some more photographic paper to develop and she could do it all on her own. Ask her how.

On the way home last night, Rowan and Berit are in the back of the van whispering about something so I suspiciously ask them to tell me what it's all about. Rowan says, "Oh, we're just talking about which boys like Berit," at which I really perk my ears up, meanwhile Berit's denying it all along.

Turns out they're whispering because Rowan snagged an extra brownie from the party we were at which they are attempting to share without my knowledge. Rowan is actually just throwing me off the scent.