Science Fair

Cora chose to investigate which glues would work best to repair squishies for her science project this year.

She was inspired by an incident, when Livi tore Violet's squishy, and we were googling which glue would work best. We found online that super glue can dissolve squishies - interesting!

For the project, Cora cut up a large squishy and used five types of glues to adhere the pieces together.

After letting them cure for 24 hours, she used a luggage scale to measure the force required to tear them back apart. A few didn't break - those were some strong glues!

She found that epoxy, super glue and wood glue worked the best - and the super glue did not dissolve the squishies, in her tests.

Cora came in first place in her grade!

Should we mention that she came in first, out of two entries?

Naahh!

(There were actually nearly 100 participants in the fair, mostly in the primary grades.)

We're proud of your hard work, Cora!

Cora: Big Win, Big Flight

When we returned from the Central Coast, we found that the big rainstorm had felled one of the pine trees at Meadows Park, one of the ones the kids loved to climb. So long, shady friend! Sad to see you go.

On Wednesday was the Science Fair, and Cora spent part of her morning presenting her project to the judges, who were mainly Master's University science majors.

In the evening, we all went to the awards ceremony, where we got to check out all the projects.

None of us have ever seen Cora's face quite as joyous as it was when she was called out as the 2nd place winner for her grade.

So proud of this girl!

On Thursday morning, we took a before-school trip to Chick-Fil-A, where we all got a free breakfast sandwich.

On Friday afternoon, Cora and I took a birthday field trip to CityWalk with Sophia and Sue and friends. Thanks to Sue and Pauly, Cora and the other kids got to experience IFly, a skydiving simulator.

She went so high! It was so much fun to watch, and also to experience.

After the flying, we all went and had pizza. Cora and I shared one, and I thought it came out so pretty.