well I hope they aren't still waiting!

the glow toys are perfectly safe in the water. they have nothing to do with electricity.

 

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Originally Posted by sophiekat well I hope they aren't still waiting! the glow toys are perfectly safe in the water. they have nothing to do with electricity.

That's what I finally concluded! I couldn't find an actual answer, but I did find a recipe for making your own glow-in-the-dark liquid, and saw it had nothing to do with electricity. So they've had their bath now. Thanks!

 

Here's a page that explains how glow-in-the-dark works, in simple language.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question388.htm

 

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Originally Posted by lobster_mom Here's a page that explains how glow-in-the-dark works, in simple language. http://science.howstuffworks.com/question388.htm

Wow! I think my dh and both dd's would be highly-interested in making our own glow-in-the-dark liquid, and in learning about the whole process.

 

no but they may give them lead poisoning....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in661577.shtml

 

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Originally Posted by mommy2maya no but they may give them lead poisoning.... http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/...in661577.shtml

Oh, man, that's scary! I'll have to google again for the signs of lead-poisoning. I used to worry about this a lot because we have an older home, and our youngest used to eat lots of dirt as a young toddler playing outdoors.

Our older dd had normal lead-levels when she was tested at around 2 or 3, but we gave up on getting our younger dd tested, after our doctor's office took 3 samples, and all three were insufficient for results, and dd got traumatized by all the finger-sticks.

So I just checked the symptoms and figured she didn't have them, so I quit worrying about it. I'll go google it now, to re-check and ease my mind ...

 

Just decided to let you guys know -- I don't know what symptom-list I read previously that set my mind at rest about the lead issue, but what I found last night was that there often are no symptoms.

So we're getting dd2 tested again -- not at the same office where they failed 3x (after the 2nd failure, they told me they'd discovered they had a batch of defective paper and had corrected the failure, which was why I let them do it a 3rd time).

This time we're going to the lab of our local children's hospital.