The excitement for today was a solar eclipse.
We started the adventure with a description of what was happening to the sun; however, I may have traumatized one of my children while I was explaining. It took quite a while before he stopped yelling, "I don't want the moon to block the sun! Make it stop!"
He even made an appeal for Siri's help.
Oopsie.
Anyway, once everyone understood that the world was not going to end when the moon blocked some of the sun, we had some fun.
We held out our hands to look at the crescent shaped shadows on the brick wall.
As we were taking pictures of my hands, I glanced to the left and saw the sun shining through the leaves created the same crescent shaped shadows.
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| A whole bunch of mini eclipses right on my wall. :-) |
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| The crescents continued to change as it progressed. I'm such a geek when it comes to this kind of thing. |
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| The last shot before it was over. |
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We participated in the March for Babies yesterday. I am really glad that I did it. I wrote about it on the boys' blog if you're interested in reading about our big day. :-)
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9 comments:
Hello from ICLW. Will shamefully admit I wasn't aware there was an eclipse yesterday!
Love the wall pictures.
Too cloudy here to do that. and I had NO idea to do that trick with my hands.
Thanks. In 20 years I'll do that for SURE !
Hello, from ICLW! I am pregnant with twins and have a toddler at home. Your story is very interesting to me!
Hi from ICLW. We watched the eclipse yesterday here in Wyoming. It was pretty neat!
Happy ICLW!! Wish I had known about the eclipse! :(
Hi from ICLW. Those were very cool pictures you took.
Beautiful pictures! What a fun activity.
ICLW #26
Huh. I never thought about doing that before. Of course now I live somewhere that always seems to have cloud cover when something sky related happens so it almost seems pointless. But I'll file it away in case we are ever lucky! -ICLW
Wow - they are amazing photos.
ICLW
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