We had a mellow-ish morning, sending Daddy and Holly on their way, putting together his planets puzzle for the millionth time, and watching some Daniel Tiger (his new favorite).
Then, we went to the Durham Science Museum. I've been in the Triangle for over ten years now. Why have I never been to this museum? Oh yeah, because it's $16 for adults, and I'm a cheapskate. Totally regret it now, because that place is AWESOME!
I went in with no agenda for the day. We got there a little after they opened at 10, and I knew he'd only be good until about lunch time, so I had no lofty goals of "seeing everything" or trying to keep him at an exhibit for more than his toddler-length attention span could handle. We were there a little over two hours, and there was at least another two hours' worth of things we didn't get around to. Can't wait to go back!
He was immediately ecstatic (started by jumping up and down on a bench while I put our coats away in my bag), and that continued for most of the morning.
One of his favorite things inside was a wind tunnel with a little parachute man that would fly up through the tube and float back down to you. I'm pretty sure we'd STILL be there playing with that if I hadn't eventually ushered him away.
I didn't manage to get a good parachute-and-Tyler picture, but here's what the parachute looked like:
... and here are some of his expressions of pure delight watching it:
We went inside of a "space shuttle" and I counted down from 10 to blast off. His response: "Mama, we're not moving." Oops, I guess I forgot to mention to him that we were doing a make-believe blast off!
He did, however, have a blast (see what I did there?) playing with the "mission control" outside the shuttle. His phone conversation: "Hello? Yes, no. Ok, good-bye."
"Mama, planets!"
They had a great play area for kids 6 and under. I didn't get a lot of pictures in there since I was parenting and keeping him alive and stuff, but here is one in front of a rock wall (he didn't climb, but he liked telling me about all the shapes and animals he saw).
It was getting late, and he was getting tired (he actually told me this, so I knew we were on borrowed time at that point!). Skip ahead to finding the Dinosaur Trail outside (more about this in a later post).
After the Dinosaur Trail, Tyler was hungry and tired. I decided to temporarily forget that museum food would be both overpriced and mediocre (it was) and eat there. From there, we headed back to the car, and I'm pretty sure little man was out for the count before we even left the parking lot! What a great time, though!
This post is already pretty long, so I'll share about the rest of the day in another post (or two).
After the Dinosaur Trail, Tyler was hungry and tired. I decided to temporarily forget that museum food would be both overpriced and mediocre (it was) and eat there. From there, we headed back to the car, and I'm pretty sure little man was out for the count before we even left the parking lot! What a great time, though!
This post is already pretty long, so I'll share about the rest of the day in another post (or two).
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