Balloons on the ceiling!

Okay, since Jordan is home from school yet again, we are doing some fun science stuff. Since it's to dry in the house, we're playing with static electricity. We used a static-y balloon to separate salt from pepper (worked okay, but not great). The we were seeing how many balloons we could stick to the wall (an endless number) so then we decided to stick them to the ceiling and see how long they would stay up there. We currently have 18 balloons stuck to the ceiling!


We had some fun getting them up there. First the kids decided to jump off the chairs and launch a balloon to the ceiling. Well, Jordan was, Celia was just jumping off chairs. While lots of fun.....that was highly ineffective. Here is some chair jumping fun:




Sorry about the blurry photos. They're all from the MacBook camera, which is definitely not made for action shots! So not many balloons were making it to the ceiling (although Jordan really got some air on some of them! Air Jordan, haha!) and one popped after if got landed on....so we put Celia down for her nap and stuck them up with the help of a kitchen stool.

Today I'm also eternally thankful to Huggies and CVS for great coupons and sale (respectively) and restocking my supply of baby wipes. Poor Celia is still recovering from the barrage or raisins and apple juice......all she's done today is poo! Needless to say, potty training is put off until we have some more.....controllable....poo!

The house is nice and toasty too. We were going to make cookies, but I discovered I'm almost out of flour (hmmm....shopping tonight?) so I used this chilly opportunity to set the oven on self clean. I also put shallow dishes of water with lavender oil on the radiators since it's been so dry in here....so it smells nice and fresh too! Nice.