This week in Fox was suppose to be making an orange sponge cake. This week we realized it is very important that you read the entire recipe and watch what you are doing... It started off a bit rough when we realized we needed a special pan called a tube pan. We didn't have one and no way to go get one right then and there. We researched online and people stated they had used a loaf pan and it turned out fine. Great!! We had two of those so perfect! It would all work out, right...???
I have taught Fox over and over how to separate the egg yolks from the egg whites and no matter what if I do not stand over him I catch him using his hand!! GRRRRRRR. Gross!!! I am in no way a chef but an actual chef did teach me how to do that so it gets frustrating when my child won't listen! I guess he will go his own way like everyone else though and hopefully do better in time!!
After being on winter break it was hard to get back in the swing of things! Learning about Medieval Times helped quite a bit! Every year we go to the Hoggetowne Medieval Fair so I wanted to focus on that so they would enjoy the fair more. We are of course reading a ton of books! We are going to learn as much as possible in the coming weeks, which is hard because you can easily spend a year or more on this time period! It is just so exciting and so much happened during this period!
A ton of books to choose from!
This was a pretty laid back week. We are still in the "I want to be on vacation mode". It is so hard after you have had weeks off. I say every year never again but they are just so fun!
Skyler is still working away in her Minecraft journal from the Thinking Tree.
I think the coolest thing this week was making a popcorn cooker out of soda cans. Sadly we never could get it to actually work which was a big let down. We had seen a bunch of videos on you tube, and followed all the directions but no luck :( I did of course get a bunch of pictures though!
We wound up using 3 candles and while the oil heated and you could hear the bubbling the corn never did pop. That was pretty much the excitement of our week. We went through the motions and tried to get the basics done!
This weekend we had an amazing field trip with some amazing friends! I can just say it was magical. We went to the Florida Museum of Natural History. They had a whole day dedicated to Magical Creatures and an exhibit for wicked plants! Can we say Harry Potter Day!!!!! We even snacked on food straight out of the books!
These girls are for sure fast friends and way too cute to be together!! For the Magical Creatures the museum had posters set up all over the place that we had to hunt down for a scavenger hunt. They compared the magical creature with the muggle versions!
