SciQuest

Step One - Enter Teleportation Chamber
Step Two - Close Chamber Door
Step Three - Enter Teleportation Coordinates
Step Four - Energize Teleportation Chamber
* Warning - Ensure that no other biological entities are in chamber prior to energizing.

Dog Gone - I guess we should have read all of the instructions prior to pushing the go button. Oh well, It's really not that noticeable is it?

To see some additional photos from our trip to the science museum click here.

Climb Every Mountain

There's nothing like climbing a few thousand feet up a shear granite wall first thing in the morning to get the old blood pumping. Molly decided to take the Pohick Girl Scout Troop out to do a little rock climbing. You can only earn so many badges for doing paper mache art after all. Little did she know though just how high the climb was actually going to be. Special thanks to Mrs. Hagrid for this photo of Yellow Hair in action. During the climb, Yellow Hair asked Molly, "Do you think Grandma Squeaky would be nervous is she saw what we were doing?" Without waiting for an answer, she proceeded to climb higher.

What is amazing about this is that prior to this rock climbing adventure, Yellow Hair announced that she was afraid of heights. Fear of heights is also called acrophobia. Though Yellow Hair was afraid, she did not allow her fear to consume her and she confronted it head on.

We all have fears of one sort or another. Molly is afraid of mice (Musophobia) which has led to numerous emotional encounters. Scribbles is afraid of cleaning her room for fear of what she might find. Jake is afraid of lots of things including children, the pizza man, traveling and running out of snack food (Nosnackophobia).

What are you most afraid of? How do you confront this fear?

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Snow Art

Today at the little cabin on the edge of the Pohick National Forest the snow started to melt off a little bit. With the bit that was left though, Princess YellowHair decided to try her hand at a little snow sculpture. She titled this work of art "Frederick" and added a disclaimer that any similarities between "Frederick" and King Jake were purely coincidental. Hmmm.... As I didn't have lunch today, I briefly considered eating the candy bits off of Frederick's face. But Princess YellowHair probably wouldn't appreciate that. I guess I will just have to suffer for the "Art". I've heard of starving artists, but who ever heard of starving parents of artists.

Snowed In

Here we see the youngest Pohick Princess out monitoring the snow accumulation outside of our wilderness cabin. In the winter, we are often snowed in for months at a time. We use the winter months for book-learnin and such. You know what they say. A mind is a terrible thing.....to waste. And just being a Pohick Princess is not enough to get you ahead in the modern world, so we ensure that both of the Pohick Princesses get all of the education they can stand. We also make good use of our time making clothing out of the animal pelts.