Dinos....

Seeing if Michael's armspan measures up. Also, a really good shot of Matt's bald spot. :)

Me at one end of the measurement, the kids at the other.

Our Allosaurus measuring line went from the neighbors on the left all the way to the neighbors on the right.

Michael and Seri measuring the Dinosaur length.

We have almost finished with Dinosaurs (at least for now). We went outside and measured how long different dinosaurs would be with sidewalk chalk. We measured an eight foot one, thrity-two feet, and the mother of all Dinos at eighty-eight feet long. It was decided that the 88 foot one would take about five and a half of daddy's car to measure up.

We were going to fill in the measurement with a drawing of the dinosaur on the street but figured that may take up too much chalk, maybe some other day.

We had the children estimate how long the Dino's were before we measured and Daddy's estimation came real close. He then revealed his trick of touching one end of the yarn to his nose and holding the other straight out. On an average adult this length will equal three feet. The kids were so fascinated that he then showed them that their height is usually equal to their arm span, pretty neat information. I am sure it will come in handy some day.