Of late, I have been noticing that our daughter Melissa, 5+, grade 2 student at Baama Academy and our son Marcus, 3+, who is still in pre-school, have totally different obsessions. The following pictures tell it all!
Melissa has a newfound interest in Biology, of course botany to be specific. After learning about 'GERMINATION OF SEED' at school, she insisted that she carry out the experiment about the subject on her own. During the weekend, she sowed three bean seeds in our backyard garden all of which successfully germinated after a week-long anticipated waiting and watching. That Monday morning, she took her three young plants with her to school and proudly displayed them to her science teacher and her friends. Here you can see our daughter tending her young plants, with the ground behind her covered with mosses (bryophytes). An ideal ecology, climate and season for a budding biologist!
The three young beans. If you ask her what external factors are important for germination, our daughter can very well tell you that they are temperature, water, oxygen and sunlight. 
The bean plants after 2 weeks. They will soon be planted apart to enable each one of them to grow with more freedom.
Our boy Marcus is obsessed with automobiles. You can see how happy he is when he managed to get one of the latest models like this one which is quite popular here among his local African friends. The other night, he woke me up at 04:00 hours to get such one for him!
Fortunately this weekend, Mboozi Jr. age 8, a son of my friend made this truck for him from recycled container of Maheu (a local drink made from sweetened fermented maize flour). The good thing about this engineering marvel is that all the components are made of recycled materials. The capacity is another plus point because beside its actual payload, it can carry two additional toy vehicles - a bus and a car. It is environment-friendly automobile with zero carbon emission.
The wheels are made of the lids of plastic bottles. The left front wheel is even more unique, it is made of a maize cob after the kernels have been removed/eaten!
Our son is different from his sister to the extent that he would even turn flowers into a push-on vehicle!!
