today...

Today Bridget asked what saliva was for. So we googled it and got this website. Both Bridget and Jonah enjoyed telling Jono about it at dinner. Then they told him about how Echidna's have pouches and we talked about how strange platypuses are. We decided that they are a cross between a penguin and a marsupial. Jono said if they wanted a missing link, the platypus would be it. Funny how conversations go :)

Jonah was flying around the gulf of Aqaba on Google Earth and discovered that it is 7,093,417.85 inches in length :)

Reading the Tank book to the boys; we talked at length about the effect of gravity because the guns on the tanks must account for it or else the shells will fall to the ground before reaching the target. Jonah knew alot about how gravity works and explained it to William by using examples of what happens to astronuts in space and on the moon. We learned that the first tank 'Mother' (WW1) went 6.46kph. Jonah thought it was hilarous that it would take an hour to get from here to town in it :) He then spent another hour looking up WW1 guns on the internet.