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AWe ordered a basic dissection kit and let A's scientist side run free. "It's just like SURGERY!!!!" Monday we dissected a huge (11") earthworm and a grasshopper. We found out the grasshopper was female (4 points on the backside). Did you know a grasshopper's heart is just a huge blood vessel running along its back? That was essentially practice for today--Frog Dissection Day. It was a bit odd at first ("What if it was still alive?" and how its tongue was sticking out) but once we got into it (literally), A loved it. She did a lot of the cutting work herself on all three dissections. We found the heart, saw the three chambers, chopped it & saw a septum, found the lungs, chopped one & saw the space for air & the spongy lung structure, found the liver, gall bladder, stomach, intestines, etc. We found a mystery round object & removed/bissected it to discover it was the spleen. We found the testes (it's a boy!) and other assorted parts. Baby G was freaking out a lot so eventually I let A play around on her own while I bounced the baby, and she decided to investigate the strong jumping legs. I took a quick video of her starting that part. She found muscles, an artery/vein, and eventually the bone. A also found the webbed feet, explained the purpose of the webbing to C, and worked to remove the webbing. She wanted to see the brain but the skull is a very effective barrier. We did see a large artery/vein (not sure which) on the skull bringing blood to the area, though. There are, of course, pictures. :p

C's only comment was, "Dissect smells gross." She then left.

Quote from A: The scriptures are like a compass, but with words and paper!

A said she never wants to be apart from me (or J) and that when she gets married to Someone, Someone and she would come to get us and we would buy bed (for her 6 kids she plans to have and for all of us grownups) and we would live together. Then she decided that we would live next to each other instead, with a park next to our houses so we could “meet every day” and go to the park together and play with her kids. Awwwwwwww.