Linus captured experimenting with spooky science in the Community News

Linus and Lynn got to perform a spooky science experiment at the Delaware Childrens Museum last week where they made slime from glue and borax and food coloring.  Linus' awed expression was caught by a Community News photographer.  He's in the third picture in at the link.

I am perfectly happen to encourage his fascination with science, even spooky science.

Linus sends a message

I am not sure where he got this from but last night suddenly Linus wanted to send me a message.  I suppose he has seen us send text messages or discuss it so he wanted to do one.

He was playing at the computer and out of the blue says, "Daddy, I am gonna send you a message."  he furiously types at the keyboard, then stands on the chair and "grabs" an imaginary something from behind the monitor and then mimes throwing me the message.   Across the room I catch the message, open it up like it is a little piece of imaginary paper and read it, "It says Linus loves Daddy.", and we all laugh.  We spent the next half hour throwing imaginary messages back and forth.  Some to Lynn, which read "Linus loves Mommy".  I supplied the reading of the messages, since Linus wasn't to clear on their content, he was more interested in the typing and sending. 

He has a good imagination.

Linus and Daddy at Pirate Day

Duplo Blocks Pareidolia

Do you see a face in this Duplo block house?  We were just trying to make the tallest house using all of the blocks with Linus.  We jammed that little car on the top, and lo and behold, the face appears.

World's Saftest Crib, made from DuPont Corian®

A Corian® crib at The Mexican Museum of Design (warning horrible, useless flash website) was chosen as the Mexican public's favorite piece in the exhibition "Transform your ideas with Corian®". The design was presented as the World's Safest crib.

The crib is made of Corain®, obviously, and the article talk about it's design being possible because the material is thermo-formable.



I do like the ability to have the "bars" be evocative of branches and flowers and be uneven instead of just straight. It looks expensive though. Sure it is thermo-formable or can be cut this way but I would imagine that both materials and setup of a mold would be very expensive unless you made many cribs.




This design is by architects Jihei Aoki, Alejandro Cortes, Carlos Gonzalez and Constanze Martens.

The description describes and lists the safety attributes:

• Safe because it is hypoallergenic.
• Safe because a child's heads or arms cannot get stuck in the crib
• Safe because is easily cleaned

I have to admit that I like it for it's design and look, but I am not too concerned with the other safety attributes except that it meets the appropriate level of safety for a child's crib.

(via DuPont News, archiRed, Nuestres Casas -translation, Fahrenheit Magazine,

Linus and the wheelbarrow

Linus "borrowed" the neighbors kid-sized wheelbarrow for a stroll around the yard.

Linus wants the snow gone.

Linus grabbed a shovel and tried chipping away at the last of the big snow piles left after the warm temperatures yesterday.

Above Linus takes delight in getting rid of the ice.

And more shoveling.