We've had a couple of visitors here, an old school friend of mine (the person who is the original reason I love the name K so much, and is known here as 'Big K') and her 6 month old baby A, who we were meeting for the first time.
K & M are usually completely uninterested in babies, but they were both very taken with A and engaged with her in a way I have never seen them do before. A is adorable and very alert and interested in everything that was going on, which obviously helped, although according to K, she has recently (it mst be very recent, as she wasn't interested only a fortnight ago at the LLL Toddler meeting!) changed her mind about babies.
We've done a little bit more on our body project while Big K & A were here, yesterday evening (I'm not entirely sure how it started) I took the girls' pulse and then sent them running up two flights of stairs and back again before taking their pulse again. We talked about why this happens and how the rate your pulse returns to its resting rate can be used as a measure of how fit you are. I suggested that we could do a bit of an experiment and find out how quickly K & M's pulse rates return to their resting rate and do a graph of the results. Watch this space...!
We also had a conversation about ears, burst eardrums, pressure (both when diving and going up in an aeroplane) and sinuses.
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