Fruitland Park Elementary's Science Fair

First, thank you so much for the Adriana compliments. In answer to an eyeball question...I don't need to enhance her eyes at all, they really are that blue and that beautiful. :0)
I have blue eyes too and believe me, they are nothing compared to the blue's on that girl. :0)
What I did do though, was to position her so that she was sitting under a tree in the shade and I had her facing the sunlight that was overhead but not in her face.
It wasn't eye squinting sunlight, it was just nature's beautiful light that makes those peepers sparkle.
When I take her photo I lock my camera focus on her eye and snap away.
You can try this at home. Just find some shade, turn your kiddo in a 360 {full circle}, stop when you see those eyes sparkle.
That's my simple recipe for gorgeous, show stopping, sparkly eyes.

On with the science fair update...

This weekend at Kolin's school, he has his annual "Science Fair" which is open to 4th and 5th grade only.
Since he's a 4th grader this year...he finally gets to join in.
He can pick any experiment he wants, get it approved by his teacher, conduct that experiment at home and then he makes a presentation board to submit to the actual fair, which is this Saturday.
Kolin loves science, so he thought this would be so cool. Kolin also loves the "Mythbusters" so he was totally stoked to do the one messy experiment he and Kody had been wanting to do for a long time now.

Soda and Mentos. LOL!!

Alot of you have probably seen the "Diet Coke and Mentos" Mythbusters experiment where you drop a couple of Mentos candies into a two liter bottle of diet coke and the soda just explodes out the top in a cool looking stright line that I swear reminds me of an umbiblical cord.

Kolin's experiment was to see how high he could get that soda using five different brands of soda.

So..here we go, he picked out...

Diet Coke
Mountain Dew
Sam's Diet Cola {Wal-Mart brand}
Diet Pepsi
Diet Dr. Pepper



Surprisingly the Diet Coke didn't explode as high as he figured it would...



The Mountain Dew was definetly a dud...



The Sam's Diet Coke was wayyyy better....



The Diet Pepsi rocked too!



But, it was my personal carbonated beverage favorite, Diet Dr. Pepper that beat them all..



Can you tell he was just a little excited? LOL!!

He had a lot of fun, and Kody, Kaysha, & Karl had alot of fun watching too. I had alot of fun watching his never ending expressions...which crack my butt up, I', telling ya.

I'll snap some more at ther fair this weekend, hopefully he'll win something.

BTW..if you want to try this at home, it's really not that messy. I figured he'd be soaked with soda...he wasn't.

Kody Bear is home this morning with a headache that started last night during class. It's still rocking his noggin away so we medicated him and let him try to sleep it off.
In a couple of weeks we were able to score an appt. at The Nemours Clinic in Orlando. Right about now, we're focusing on a new set of eyes loking at him with a new set of opinions.
So far nobody has given us a reason as to why he is slowly but surely losing his ability to speak. His voice is getting worse, slurry and barely audible.
His balance isn't great.
His short term memory is getting worse again, this after it had stayed the same for years.
I keep seeing his left eye turning up again.

This appt. we have will be to see the Ped's ENT {Ear, Nose, Throat Specialist} and in June we have an appt. set up at the same Clinic to see Ped's Neurology.

I'm not saying that we are, for sure, leaving Shands...we just want another opinion. And, if it works out that we like Nemours better..then so be it.
Answers and whatever is best for Bear, that's all we want.

Welp, I better get going for this morning. As I type this the washing machine is doing it's "Please help me" dance across the room, the blue jays are arguing with the squirrels to see who'll get fed first this morning and there is a brand neew cherry pie in the fridge calling my name. ;0)

Have a beautiful day everyone!!!!!!

Love, Kim