Water Marble Rave

 Have you heard about water marbles?  They are the coolest things ever!  I'm not sure what the official name is, but they are in the floral section.  I found ours at Tuesday morning for about $0.50 a bag. 

 

 They start out so tiny, think a large mustard grain, and you put them into a big container of water and they grow and grow and grow!  They turn into little wet marbles, about the size of regular glass marbles.  Each package contains about a teaspoon full of these little colored balls, and they end up big!  H enjoys checking them out at each stage.

 It can get a little messy with little guys, but at least its only water!

 

 Once they start to grow a little, they get very lumpy and bumpy, H thinks this part is silly!

(The previous pictures are from this summer, I just never posted them - or took any pictures of C with them.  He loves them just as much as H!)

 A few days ago we got another batch going.  After they grow, I just leave the container on the counter with some scoops and stuff and let the boys play with them when they are ready!  They feel good, I have to go play with them every now and again too!

 H's favorite thing to do with the water marbles is to put his face in it!  I guess it feels good.  He says that he is making a silly face into it.  I'll have to take his word for it.

C loves to scoop them and feel them.  He doesn't even try to put them in his mouth.  

(Notice his "owl tufts?"  His hair seems to do this all the time!  He wakes up with his hair like that most mornings, and there doesn't seem to be anything I can do about it - I try to comb them down, wet it, etc, and within about five minutes his hair will be trying to fly away again!  (His Daddy often wakes up with hair like that too!  Maybe it's inherited!)).

I sent this video to KK, Pop, and SweetHart of C playing happily with the water marbles and H dancing to the music he created on the Zoundz music toy we have.  Pop replied that it looks like this was their first rave!  Sort of looks like it.  We were having a great time being silly and dancing.  They were so happily occupied for a good thirty minutes or so that I was able to get the dishes taken care of and the kitchen clean with minimal interruptions.  This may become an after supper routine!