Watching the Rain

This past weekend was predicted to be rainy, so I decided to finally make the weather chart that I had been eyeballing on Pinterest and talk with the boys about rain and other Pacific Northwest weather.

They love the chart and have come up to me and said, "Mama, I think the weather is somewhere between cold and burning hot!"  Yeah, an outside thermometer is next on my Home Depot shopping list.

Since the weather app on my tablet said that we should expect 1"-4" of rain over the weekend, I made our own rain gauge using one of my canning jars, a permanent marker, and a ruler.  The boys were so excited to watch the jar slowly fill up with rain.

Monday morning, I brought in the jar to see how much rain we collected.

We collected 1 1/2" of rain over the weekend. Beniah begged me to put the jar back outside so we can collect more rain. I'm thinking a rain gauge is going to become a permanent fixture in our garden.

Science is Cool!

I am in love with our local library!  They have all sorts of fun activities for toddlers and preschoolers. One such program is their Explore! science program. Since the boys seem to have a fascination with science and Tim now has a work at home job that requires him to be on the phone for almost 8 hours a day, a couple weeks ago, I decided to take the boys to the library for a science lesson.

The theme for the day was weather.  The boys were able to see (kind of) how rain clouds filled up with water and to make the cotton ball rain clouds rain onto a tray. This was Elijah's favorite experiment.  He wanted nothing to do with the second experiment.

Beniah's favorite experiment involved a glass of water with shaving cream on top, a medicine dropper, and colored water.

It was supposed to show how rain fell from the clouds.

It was so cool, that we had to show Daddy after he got off of work that night.

The boys enjoyed learning about rainy weather. I (unfortunately) learned that I am too far along in my pregnancy to have the energy to take the boys to the science class at the library and be able to do my regular Mama jobs afterwards.  Oh well, we head back to the library for more science fun after Isaac is born.