She got the urge to dust things this morning. That happens every so often. Obviously I allow it.
Played with Duplos.
She has informed me that some of those beads that she's constantly sorting are vegetables.
She spent some more time on that Hour of Code website. Played some games and watched some videos about STEM-type stuff, I think.
It was library day. Luckily this summer, our branch has been doing special programs on the day we normally go to the library anyway. Today it was "Sciencetellers". This involved a female scientist in a tie-dyed lab coat, dry ice, fire, instruction on the states of matter, and lots of corny jokes. It was awesome. :-) The lady did a card trick, which prompted Lucy to ask me on the way home how people do card tricks. I pretty much told her that the magician practices a long time to get really good at distracting you so they can hide the card where you weren't looking, and that I never know exactly how they do it, and it's really cool. When we got home, she decided she would try it, but with leaves instead of cards. (?) At one point she told me there were four leaves under a throw cushion, and when she lifted it up there were only three. Then she opened her laptop that was sitting on the coffee table and pulled out the fourth one. :-)
[Tie-dye scientist with bucket of dry ice]
She asked for the second volume of Pixar shorts on DVD from the library. She spent several hours watching the same three or four shorts over and over. Possibly she was trying to suck every detail from them. It is Pixar, after all. There's a lot there.
Unfortunately for us parental units, Lucy seems to be the most prolifically creative in the hour around and past her bed time. Tonight is was constructing this Lego motel.
At her request, we also picked up several books about sign language today. We spent the time before bed reading one of them and practicing some of the signs. [As a linguist, I must say, I am fascinated by the gender markers on family member terms!]
