Cobservations on Dinosaurs

The other day, S had two scientists at the kitchen table.  M and J were "cobserving" a dinosaur and making hypotheses (yes, they said that).  They categorized their bin of dinosaurs as meat-eaters and leaf-eaters, separating the birds "because they are hard to inspect." 

"This is our contrast pile."

"Whatever is small goes in the small set."

"These have long tails and stand up."

They were doing all of this using a tape measure and a kitchen scale, and wearing goggles and button-down pajamas. 

At the end, two small triceratops were on the kitchen scale while the crazy little scientists in pajamas and goggles called out numbers to record as more "cobservations."

Flash M, the Juice-a-saurus

One weekend before Christmas, we learned:

M is a Juice-a-saurus.  Juice-a-sauruses (M's preferred plural) live in water, but are the fastest land animal.  His name is Flash M.  He has a Flash M-mobile, which is a rocket-mobile that turns into a helicopter or an airplane or a truck.  There is also a very involved costume.  Flash M the Juice-a-saurus has ten fingers instead of two, like most carnivores.  He does eat leaves like spinach, but only raw.  He does not like oranges.

I wish I was a superhero like Flash M, the Juice-a-saurus.

Greenoff, Reindeer of Legend

M and J were coloring with markers while A napped.  The red marker dried out and became unusable.  This was unfortunate, because it was just before Christmas, and M really wanted to draw Rudolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Undeterred, he told S he had an idea; he would draw a green-nosed reindeer, Rudolf's sister.  J approved, and when asked, stated that her name should be "Greenoff."  This seems logical, as they think Rudolf is pronounced "Redoff."

Busted!

S took the boys to the craft store last month.  M and J were constantly grabbing items off the shelf and asking S to identify them.  She finally stopped paying attention to the particular items about which they were inquiring.

M held up a final item, and asked S what it was.  "I don't know.  Put it down."  He responded, "Of course you don't know; you didn't even look at it!"