Science Museum

Boy am I on a roll with posting! This is like my 3rd post in a week, I think.

First we started the day off with homemade biscuits, sausage, and boiled eggs. Leyla loves to help bake so that was something fun we did together.

Then I took Leyla to the Perot Science Museum here in Dallas. It was in the low-60s today so I thought an indoor activity would be a good idea. I looked up several places like discovery museums, jump and plays, parks, go-karts - before deciding just to go to the science museum. There was a neat jump and play place but the open jump for toddlers is only on Wednesdays and Thursdays so that wasn't going to work for today.

Luckily, I learned from Chuck-e-Cheese and wrote down step by step directions to find the museum. And I only got lost for about 15 minutes, when I hit downtown. But I didn't have to call anyone or ask for directions and found my way to the right place...haha.

 The top floor of the museum was a dinosaur exhibit. She enjoyed seeing the bones and recognized a few from one of her kiddy TV shows, but the mammoth scared her! It had huge tusks and there was a stuffed bison beside it too that I think she thought was real. But she was fine really after we looked at it together.

She thought it was cool to sit in the dinosaur footprint.
Each floor had a different exhibit but for her age it was a little too much reading and explaining and in-depth. Plus I wanted to walk through quickly since I knew we'd be there awhile and we had 4 floors to get through! On the geology level though, she liked looking at the pretty crystals in the caves AND we got to experience a fake earthquake - she laughed at that when she couldn't stay standing!

 So we headed down to the lower level to the Children's Museum. They had a river-dam station where the kids could play in the water with boats and cups to measure and pour.

 Then there was a farmer's market where you could "unload" the truck with the groceries and stock the produce in the store. And of course buy and sell the groceries. Leyla just hoarded all the baskets.

 There was a construction site where you could build with these foam blocks, transport them on conveyor belts, crawl through tunnels and go down slides, etc.

 THEN she realized there was a sandbox outside. I am so lucky I have a child that doesn't like feeling dirty! She chose to sit at the table and build a castle instead of sitting in the actual sandbox. One kid was sitting there covering herself with sand...and another throwing it in his hair....ugh.

 It was getting close to 4:00 by then so I started getting Leyla ready to leave - we headed back upstairs one last time because another mom told me there were some interactive exhibits I had missed. They had an exhibit where you could build a robot, play with kinex, remote control cars, and other mechanical things.

 They had a little music studio too, so we played the drums!

All in all it was a good day and I think money well spent - she enjoyed it and got to do some new things. We were there from around 12:30 to 4:30! And of course she fell asleep in the car. I really want her to get to do some fun things while we are here, explore places she can't in Honduras (like the zoo and the museum). Hopefully it'll be warm enough later this week that we can go to the park and feed the ducks at the pond. And if I don't go into labor soon, we may get a chance to go to the aquarium too.

I was secretly hoping all the walking at the museum would bring on some contractions....but nothing yet. :)