A Night at the Museum....

One of Tyler's big interests over the last few months has been dinosaurs. Last week, the Springfield Science Museum welcomed a new traveling exhibit-- Dinosaurs! Land, Sea, Air. We all decided that we needed to go and check it out, especially after hearing how cool it was from all of Tyler's school friends. Never having been to the museum, we had no idea what to expect. The first room we walked in to had a HUGE T-Rex model and that was enough for Tyler-- he was FREAKED! All the explaining in the world couldn't convince him that it was f-a-k-e! He had the same reaction to the African Animal exhibit and we had to carry him as we made our way to the special exhibit....


The special dinosaur exhibit was full of motorized dinosaurs. He was still a bit scared, but after awhile, he ran from one dinosaur to the next, dug for dinosaur "fossils", crawled through a volcano, and even did a crayon rubbing of a Stegosaurus. We spent hours at the Science Museum and even after we were done with the special exibit and went and saw all the other animals they had on display, Tyler kept wanting to go back in and see the motorized dinos again. Needless to say, we were all exhausted by the time we left and our little big man fell asleep on the way out.


On the way home, we decided to go to our favorite pizza restaurant, The Pizza Shoppe. On Sunday nights they feature a singer that does only kid songs. Parents know that the best thing about going to out to eat is when you don't have to worry about 1) cooking, 2) cleaning, and 3) being in a restaurant that is louder than you know your kid can be!
"You promise that she can't get me?"
"I wonder if he knows how to play hockey? Did they have sticks when the dinosaurs were alive? Did he like Lighting McQueen or Mater? Do they have to go to the dentist?"
"How much longer do we have to dig through this sand until we get the the dinosaur? Can't we just use a vacuum?"