potato launcher

i may not ever win any "mother of the year awards", but i do like to let my children explore their creative sides on a regular basis.

last night josh and a couple of his friends all gathered at Home Depot (not just for home remodeling supplies anymore!) to pick up a plethora of supplies to build a potato launcher.

after several hours of hard work and trying, retrying and adjusting--they had a completed product.

the launcher shot not only potatoes, but apples as well.

it was all fun and games til one of our neighbors called and asked "what the *#(&(@! is all the noise coming from your house?"

kyle looked at me...."a supervised science project?"


we made the boys stop for the night...it was loud. we apologize dear neighbors.


but hey the way i look at it is this: they are not out getting into any trouble. they are being creative. they are not breaking any laws. no one is getting hurt. they "measured" and "calculated" as much scientific data as they could. (velocity, speed of spuds, distance, etc.) they had fun. they were supervised by 2 adults at all times. no fingers or limbs were lost during said incident.

i love to observe the differences between groups of girls and groups of boys gathered together.
seriously, wow! (as my kids would say) and in my next life, i want to be a boy if that's possible. i'm telling you, it would ALL just be so much easier to be a boy.

photos to follow. this is a lame post without photos, i know.


it was quite fun to watch.

goodbye summer. :O(