Stuck whales

A mother and baby humpback whale traveled up the Sacramento River and appear to be stuck. I may take the kids down to the Delta to see them after school if they are still there.

*** Update: the whales have not been spotted today, so I guess we won't be heading down there after all.

Yesterday the boys participated in a study through the UC Davis Children's Thinking Lab to study how their eyes track a computer screen while they are trying to figure out the answer to different puzzles. They enjoyed it (and got a few toys at the end as a gift). The puzzle Douglas was doing involved looking at cards that were red with a star in the middle or blue with a circle, and first he had to sort them by color and then again sort cards by the shape. The researcher told me typically 3 year olds can't do that - they can't look at the same object twice in two different ways - but he managed to get them all right. I heard the researcher saying between every one, "Now remember, stars go here and circles go here" so I figured he was getting them all wrong, but apparently that is just part of their standard script for the study. Anyway, they thought it was fun.

The big school "spring fling" with carnival, silent auction, and raffle is this Saturday. Raffle proceeds are now just short of $12,000. Not too bad.