Slime Bubbles with Daddy

Taking pictures of our activities is just part of the fun. From start to finish with slime bubbles I had taken 249 pictures! Can anyone appreciate how difficult it is to whittle down the number of pictures to a more reasonable amount? Please keep this in mind when noting how many pictures are in this post. 

So here is our experience with slime bubbles. 

It began with Ted, Tidus, Ruby and me out on the porch with our supplies. Tyler was inside getting ready to do his homework and adamant that he would not be participating at all because he had work to do. 

We got this idea from the What's Up Moms YouTube channel. They tend to make their projects seem easier than they are in real life and past experience tells me I am really inept at making slime. All it takes is glue and liquid starch. Why is it so stinking difficult for me? 

With our first attempt we used blue food coloring and what I came up with was something similar to the alien entrails that ended up on the face of the border patrol officer at the beginning of Men In Black. We even have our own Frank the Pug. 

Luckily I bought two bottles of glue in anticipation of my initial failure. While all this was going on Tyler was just inside the door yelling out some slimy solutions. Apparently I was not doing what he wanted so he came out and took over. For round two Ted chose yellow. In retrospect this was a gross color for slime because now it looked more like something from a nasty cold. 

 Tyler says slime is like bread dough. You have to knead it for quite a while. This would have been a nice tip to learn from the video. Finally daddy was able to get the slime to the correct consistency and we were ready to make bubbles. You just insert a straw and blow.

xZ

After a while the kids were filthy from the dirty porch and had pretty much left to play with their toys. Tyler continued playing with the slime long after everyone else was done. 

Both kids were hosed off in the tub after this and Tyler followed with the slime still in hand. 

I forget to mention Ted was terrified of the slime after a bubble popped and then stuck to him giving the impression it was chasing after him. Tyler, ever the jokester, got the evil idea to sneak up on Ted while he played in the tub and hover a bubble over his head. This was absolutely terrifying to Ted... as it would probably be to anyone. 

As you can see Tyler felt a little remorse (and a reprimanding from his wife) so he took some time to get Ted once again comfortable with the slime and Ted grew to love it... kind of.  

And the grand prize for the biggest slime nerd goes to TYLER. Seriously what a goof. He ended his slime playing by forming it over his hand to look like a slime monster and chasing us around. Eww!