Kids Science

Stanley got a science kit from Ricki and Chase for his birthday. He made some crazy gooy stuff this morning when he first opened the kit. Then this evening he worked on making a glow-in-the-dark bouncy ball out of "globules" and putting them in water and then letting it dry. It was pretty cool. He called it his cosmic ray, after a book he has. 

When we were going to sleep, this was my conversation:

Me: Stanley do you like science.

Stanley: yeah, I'm learning how to do science

Me: You know who else is a scientist?

Stanley: Yeah, Daddy and Papa Doug

Me: Yes. (I wanted to add in engineering as an OK profession) Stanley I'm an engineer. Engineers build stuff
Stanley paused for a moment

Stanley: Mommy, you know who else is an engineer? Papa Doug. He is a better engineer because he builds lots and lots of cool stuff.

I'm guessing Stanley still remembers Papa Doug building the ramp and the box structure. Forgot my 10 years of engineering, Papa Doug's engineering clearly made more of a difference.