O is for....

Orange Ooblek, Olympics, and Stir fry Orange Beef and stir-fry Orange Broccoli. We picked up Bartholomew Cubbins and the Ooblek from the library yesterday. Ilea read it out loud to Kyler. We haven't read that book in a long time! Then we made Orange Ooblek. It's 2 parts corn starch and 1 part water. Fun stuff (Oobleck is a type of non-Newtonian fluid called a dilatant)! They played with it longer than I would have thought. Even Kipp thought it was neat.


Later in the day the kids worked on thier Olympic competition. They created 20-30 games that they could do around our yard and have been competing with each other and keeping scores. They had started them earlier in the summer, and thought O day was a good day to work on them again. I think Kyler's ahead. Kipp jumped into this race, and almost won!



For dinner I pulled out an old recipe of Orange stir-fried beef and noodles, which was mostly tasteless. But I also tested a recipe for Cook's Illustrated of Stir Fry Orange Brocolli. Now I don't normally like brocolli, nor do I like the smell in my kitchen after cooking it. But this was delicious! I even had a large second helping, which is bizarre! It really helped the beef, and had a great orange-spicy flavor, and no usual broccoli smell. Too bad for the kids that I found a new veggie I like!