If you have spent time with Faye, especially outdoors, you are probably familiar with her insatiable desire to “reorganize” things.  For example, any trip to the beach ends up in a massive effort to take select sand from the beach and place it in the water, or handfuls of water that need to be placed on the beach.  It is very entertaining to watch (except when she is trying to rearrange my mulch), particularly because she does these tasks with such focus and intensity.

The weekend before last brought such nice weather and I was tasked with occupying our daughter so Shannon could get some serious school work done.  It was a joy for me, as I just spent the past 3 weeks away from everyone in California.  We went down to our private beach for some initial rearranging work and a swim, where I came up with the perfect Faye activity.

I scrounged up what containers I could find along with some water and food coloring and wala, a homemade “science kit” is born!

Using what I call the tongue-intensity metric, you can see this activity is about a 7 or 8.

This led to hours of fun entertainment, for Faye and her parents.  She explains it best, so I’ve included this short video.

It turned out to be a real fun weekend for all of us.  Just what I needed after some time away from the family.  My daddy-daughter day went so well, I offered another one up to Shannon so she could have another productive study session.  It gave me a perfect excuse to head to Jacksonville to visit the temple I call the bike shop, since it is not far from the closest Toys R Us.  Faye even test-drove a few of the kids bikes in the shop (and several more at Toys R Us).

As you can see, Toys R Us was an adventure in itself, and I was able to spoil my own daughter for a change with some Cold Stone Creamery ice cream.

Did you expect her to pick something other than blue ice cream?

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