Rock On!

 

A few months ago we bought a geode. A geode is a rock that is plain on the outside, but can have really pretty crystals on the inside.

 

Here is our geode:

 

 

We had to figure out how to get it open. Princess tried smashing it. We were still in jammies when we did this activity:

 

 

Then we put it in a sock and tried smashing it harder...the sock was so the pieces wouldn't hurt us. That didn't work, so I had to get out a hammer and hit it until it broke.

 

 

 

This is what ours had the potential to look like:

 

 

 

But this is what we got. Still a cool rock:

 

 

That inspired Princess to get out her rock collection:

 

 

She loves running her fingers through them:

 

 

Here she is with her "fun and special" rocks. Apparently fun and special rocks are the kind you buy at Pier One: