The Addie and Ivy Adventures

Monday was our first day of Astronaut Training, and it went pretty good!  We started our day with a small snack and some water before doing some Cosmic Kids Yoga for our Astronaut Exercise.  It was a bit of a rough start, with both of us wishing we could nap through it instead, but we finished strong!  Ivy started learning Russian on the Duolingo app, since we discovered that NASA requires all astronauts to learn it before going into space.  Our Astronaut Academics was to work on a science kit which just happened to be about astronomy!  We read cards with planet data (the numbers were difficult for us to comprehend, and the measurement labels were not easy to read when they were written at all) and popped together a mini solar system model - THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK! Tuesday was aerobics for our Astronaut Exercise, and we decided to jump rope.  She struggles getting the rope into a complete swing, but she kept trying!  After school she did some more Russ...

Ivy has been on an astronomy kick for more than a year, and I've been encouraging her little by little, honestly waiting for her to "move on".  She got a telescope with her birthday money last year, and we've been camping a few times with the goal of stargazing.  We've been watching "How the Universe Works"  with a good degree of regularly, and she has a few books on astronomy that she enjoys reading. So, it's safe to say that she has not moved on.  In fact, yesterday she was very emphatic in her desire to be an astronaut.  We were watching an episode of  "Family Matters", where Eddie is talking about his future as a rock star or model - and his father is quite adamant that he become a cop, to Eddie's dismay.  Ivy worried that grown-up Ivy would not want to be an astronaut, and I told her that it's okay to change your mind!  But she was worried because right now she so wants to become an astronaut.  I told her that she can start pre...