GREEN SEEN: In our travels, CJ spends a lot of time looking down. Because that's the case, he's often finding treasures on the ground other people miss (money, hair clips, rubber bands, jewelry, etc.) Yesterday, at the park, he found what he was sure was a baby four leaf clover.
PLAYTIME: We did math today (addition and subtraction story problems with numbers in the thousands), read some, and did some writing, but the kids' A#1 activity was attending their yoga friend's birthday party at KidzBounce. It was a bit of a haul getting there (six miles east of Issaquah), but it was worth it once we were there.
BLOCKHEADS: We had fun taking the "Pixel Challenge" on Yahoo! Games' Brain Games. According to Dr. Pawan Sinha of MIT, 75 percent of his test subjects could recognize faces with only 12x14 pixels' worth of information. Interesting. Apparently humans' holistic approach to viewing is the key.
GEEK SPEAK: I played a NASA audio describing a special mission for the kids today and asked them who or what the NASA announcer was talking about. I had to play it twice before Bee finally got it.
TRACKING: We finally checked in with NORAD today. HQed in Colorado Springs, the bi-national U.S.-Canadian military organization is responsible for the aerospace and maritime defense of the United States and Canada. Important work, but I have to think they're most famous for being the preeminent Santa tracking agency.
The kids each played around in NORAD's Kids' Countdown Village, where they solved word puzzles, had virtual snowball fights, checked out Santa's sled specs and much more. Good times!
SANTA'S LITTLE DETOUR: Ever wonder how Santa makes it all his deliveries in one night? NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have your answer: Santa's Little Detour.
After watching how fast the ISS streaked across the sky directly over our house at 5:21 this evening, I'm a believer!
Links were fun. Thnc.
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