3rd Jan 2014: Water wheels, hammers and sharks
Becky, Aged 37
3rd Jan 2014: A fresh pool
Dylan, Aged 6
This is Day 3 of a 30 Day Post-a-Healthy-Picture challenge
Day 3: A wonderful world of water
January 3, 2014
Warning: Highly trained hamster
June 4, 2013
Son: I’m pretending that I’m a hamster drinking from a water tank! [Drinks through a straw from an upside-down smoothie carton]
I’m imagining that there’s another hamster and we’re fighting over the water tank. I run to my room and lock the door with a key. The other hamster doesn’t know I’ve got a key to lock the door, because I keep it in a drawer with bombs in it. And he wouldn’t be able to take the key out, because the bombs go off if they’re moved. And the other hamster can’t can’t lock or unlock doors because he hasn’t been trained like I have.
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Santa in a paddling pool
May 9, 2013
Son: That paddling pool‘s for babies!
Mum: No it’s not. YOU can stand in it and paddle – I can stand in it and paddle and I’m an adult!
Son: Can Santa stand in it and paddle?
Mum: Yes, probably! …Although his reindeer might not fit in.
Do fish blink?
April 6, 2013
D: Do fishes blink?
Me: No, I don’t think so. We blink to keep our eyeballs moist.
D: What’s ‘moist’?
Me: Not dry – we blink to stop out eyeballs drying out, and fish live in water, so they don’t need to stop their eyeballs drying out.
D: But water can STING if you get it in your eyes, and THEN you have to blink.
Me: Water doesn’t sting – it’s a bit nothingy on its own. The fish are used to having it in their eyes.
D: What about the BABY fish? They won’t be used to having it in their eyes. Do they just come out, blink a few times and then they’re used to it?
Me: No. I don’t think they’re built with eyelids. They just have their eyes wide open all the time because they don’t need to blink.
D: Oh.
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Oh happy day!
April 5, 2013
D: Do you know why today is going to be a happy day?
Me: Why?
D: Because, the sun is out and when I blink my eyes I see a happy face behind my eyelids – two eyes there and a big smile. So it’s going to be a happy day.
Me: That’s good.
D: …But then, do you know why it might not be a happy day?
Me: Oh, why?
D: Just LOOK at those BIG rain clouds. So it might not be a nice day… But maybe it will be a happy day this morning, when the sun’s out, and then a sad day this afternoon when it’s rainy.
Me: It won’t a sad day this afternoon – you’ve got Art Club!
D: But it will rain at play time! The rain clouds might think, “We should go away.” Or they might think, “We should get some water down there so they can live.” So there’s two choices.
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Underwater scenery
March 30, 2013
Sea Life
It’s in the sea. There’s a fishy, there’s a fishy, there’s a fishy, there’s a fishy – 4 fishies. There’s a whale, a shark and a starfish.
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Too much salt
March 24, 2013
D: Can I have some salt on this?
Me: There’s already some on it.
D: I can’t taste it. Can I have some more on?
Me: A tiny bit. Too much salt is bad for your heart.
D: I know!… Mum?
Me: Yes?
D: What happens to your heart if you have too much salt?
Me: Weeeell… Salt dries things up. You know when you eat salty food it makes you thirsty?
D: Yes.
Me: Well, if you eat lots of salt, then your body thinks it’s trying to dry up your insides and so it holds on to lots of water and keeps it in your body, so there’s less space for everything to move around. Your blood can’t travel around in the tubes so well, because the walls of the tubes get thicker to cope with all the salt, so the space in the tubes gets smaller. Your blood pressure goes up and your heart and kidneys have to work really, really hard and might not be able to work properly.
D: I know about when kidneys don’t work properly – Cooper, the dog, had a problem with his kidney and he wee’d all over the floor, but it wasn’t his fault – it was his kidney not working properly.
Me: Oh yes, his insides didn’t work very well did they? I don’t think that was too much salt though – I think it was just old age.
Sometimes, too much salt can affect your brain too – high blood pressure and thin tubes sometimes means that blood can’t travel up to your brain so well.
D: So your brain doesn’t work properly?
Me: That could be – yes. If your brain doesn’t get as much oxygen as it needs, because not enough blood is getting there with the oxygen in, then your brain won’t work properly.
D: Oh! I hope my brain won’t break because I had too much salt!
Me: You’ll be fine. But you shouldn’t eat too much salt on things – just a teeny tiny pinch will do.
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Flipping around
March 18, 2013
Back flips – Mar 2013
D: Those shapes are the reflection on the top of the water and that’s the man at the top of the ladders. That’s the sun shining through the window, and that’s us swimming – there.
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Sea treasure everywhere
March 6, 2013
Sea treasures – Feb 2013
D: I wanted to draw under the sea – and the gems are treasure! There’s an island with a palm tree and treasure on it [bottom left]; those things that look like ‘B’s are the waves; and there are stars all around.
Inland piracy
March 3, 2013
Boating lake – Feb 2013
D: That’s a boat in the lake, and that’s a pirate flag with a skull and crossbones. There’s a man downstairs, where the work gets done, and that’s the captain, with his hat on. There’s waves on the lake and that’s an island, with X-marks-the-spots and a palm tree.
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