Water Displacement

Elena initiated a lesson in water displacement today when she asked why the water level went down when people got out of the spa at the party yesterday (I love how she remembers these things she's curious about and asks us the next day). I showed her the basics of water displacement using a glass full of water and various objects. She seems to get it pretty well.

Puberty

Elena has been getting lessons in puberty, sparked by her questions about how exactly her body will develop to look like a woman's. I will not go into detail in the blog about this because I don't want our blog to show up when people search for prurient terms. Suffice it to say she asked questions that got her a fair bit of detailed information.

No voice update

Elena has gone from having a deep smoker's voice to having almost no voice at all. Since she's still in good spirits, this has been a good learning opportunity. We've been discussing vocal chords, how they work (including watching videos of actual vocal chords) and the swelling that is currently keeping her from being able to produce sounds. Fun science lesson!

No Voice

Elena is sick, and has lost her voice. She sounds worse than a smoker. It's very strange to hear this relatively alto voice coming out of my three year old.

She's generally cheery though. It isn't wearing her down very much yet.

Castle Park

My parents took Elena to Castle park, a nearby smallish amusement park, while Erich and I were busy singing at a wedding. She LOVED it. She was very enthusiastic about the rides, though she preferred the physically exciting ones to the psychologically exciting ones. My parents mistakenly took her on a dark "shoot the bad people" ride that was not a hit. My mother tried her best to reassure her that it was all pretend and that the bad people weren't going to hurt them. Elena's response at the end was "If they weren't going to hurt us, why were we shooting at them?" Good girl.