As alluded to in my last post, we had a fun science project with Grampa recently. It definitely comes in handy to have a doctor in the family.
The jist of this project was to have the boys trace their body on paper, and to guess which different parts of their bodies would yield some sort of sound when listened to with a stethoscope. Then they got to actually use a stethoscope on the different parts of their bodies to test their hypotheses.
It was amazing for us to discover how noisy our bodies are. Once we all got the hang of learning to use the stethoscope (yes, there is a small learning curve), we laughed and had a lot of fun trying to describe the sounds we heard in our innards. For the most part, the boys were pretty accurate guessers. There were only a couple of body parts that didn’t make any sound when they thought they would.
Thanks to Grampa, for finding time in his busy schedule to spend the evening with us and let us use his high-tech equipment. 
It was a fun project.
Nope, no noise in the nose!
Fake recording our data (I asked Henry to pose for the picture but he neglected to take the cap off the marker to make it entirely believable)
NOW we’re talkin’!
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