Friday, July 19, 2013

A Scientific Day Lived in Anya's Life

As my old friend Chad pointed out last night, we are very consciously raising a kid to be interested in science.  Whether it will stick is anyone's guess, but so far so good. 
 
 
Cassini
Here we are waving at the Cassini space probe when it turned around and snapped a shot of Earth from around Saturn.  We waved for 1 minute just to make sure it got us :-)  It took our photons ~80 minutes to get to Cassini's camera.
 
Chad's family's house
Judy McEvoy was a pre-school teacher until recently, and she adores Anya and loves to share all her sciencey stuff with her. In addition to playing with the bones, Anya also managed to coax 3 large rock samples from Judy's collection.
 Anya trying on a deer jaw for size

Anya with a cobra skin

Deer skull?  Not sure. It's an Anya hat

Anya measuring her six year molars against an elk jaw

vertebrae face mask 

Gymnastics
Yes, even at gymnastics she finds some way to play with creepy crawlies.  Here she is with a "Rubber Python"  the Reptile Guy brought to the gym's adjacent pre-school. She also played with Turtles and was kissed by a Boa Constrictor.

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