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Right triangles

Ella put on her "let's try to trick daddy face" and asked, "So, is a right triangle a triangle with three right angles?" Daddy decided that an introduction to spherical geometry was in order.

Turning 5

Luke just turned 5. This has some implications around our house. Luke collects many many stuffed animals and other things: Lemma, Mr. Gotche, a pillow named Eyeball and another named Pillowy... you get the idea. Tonight he was missing his blanket. We couldn't immediately find it, so I used the excuse I had been using for years: "Blankie just went on a little vacation. He'll come back in the morning." Luke looked at me like I was a crazy woman. "But they can't MOVE!" I tried again. "Don't worry, Luke, Blankie will come back in the morning." He just repeated again, "THEY can't MOVE!" After a few more tries I did get through to him the real explanation, that he had moved Blankie somewhere, but that we didn't know where and would have to look for it in the morning. In the end Luke saw Blankie's corner sticking out somewhere, so it didn't matter anyway. But I'm left wondering how many more convenient expl

Amanda's tripwire

Amanda wanted to make sure no one could steal her valentines, so she rigged a tripwire from a length of elastic...

Cooking

Carrots, mashed pear, vinegar, sugar, brown sugar, flour, baking powder, margarine: $2-3.  Afternoon of Luke baking (and then cleaning up): priceless.