Stickers anyone?

On Tuesday, we visited Mrs Grossman's Sticker Factory for the tour. We're the kind of family that loves to watch How It's Made, so the kids are in awe of the process. It's a $3 tour, so if you're ever in the area, it's totally worth it. You see how they take sheets of sticker and dye cut then ink and then package into retail products. During the inking process, the room smells like ammonia. Not overwhelming, but very stinky.

After the sticker factory, we were at a relatives house. That's when 7 began asking questions. He was still wondering about the ammonia. He wanted to know how it was made. Nana explained that it was a chemical. We've previously talked about water and how it's h2o. We've also had discussions about c2o, co, and o when explaining what was necessary to sustain life and how we breathe. So then, 7 decided he needed to know the chemical equation for ammonia. When we came home from the day out, he had me looking up the periodic table and showing him ammonia. He loved the look of the periodic table. I told him there's a poster of it I saw recently at Michael's...he wants one for his room.

7's mind is never still. I told him that in high school chemistry I had to memorize the periodic table. He's decided he'd like to try to do that now. I just have to write these things down so I remember these crazy things he comes up with.