Science museum

For Christmas my best friend Chrysinda got us a pass to the science museum, so we finally went there on Wednesday! I hadn’t been there since before the kids were born, and I didn’t remember most of it. Really about the only thing I remembered was the Earthquake simulator. The kids were actually bored with that pretty quickly because it was mostly an educational video to watch. They did like the vibrating floor though.

They have a really cool play area with swings and slides among other things. I think Jonathan’s favorite thing there was the 24-foot spiral slide! Jayla wanted to go down it with someone, but Daddy was playing with Jacob, and I did not feel like climbing all the way up there and then get dizzy coming down! She had lots of fun on the different swings though.

The first thing we did when we got there was go to a class for preschoolers. The theme was “green”, so the kids got to make some green slime! They got to mix the ingredients, which included blue and yellow food coloring. Then they got to make some 3-leaf clovers. The teacher was really nice, but she kind of talked down to the kids. Grant it, it was a preschool class, but some of the things she talked about were very easy for Jayla…..things like, “Are bananas green? Is broccoli green?” She was eating it up though. :) Jonathan, on the other hand, while he did enjoy it, could only take so much. Close to the end of the class, he finally said, “Oh, come on! I’m 6 years old!” LOL! I think he was referring to the way she was talking to him, but I just told her “This stuff is easy for him.” The lady was very nice though. We saw her later in the preschool play area, and she gave us a sheet with instructions on how to make our own bouncy balls! Yea!!! (I'll post directions soon.)

There is so much more to say about the science museum, but I’ll let the pictures do the talking. Let’s just say that, while the day was very fun, I was so tired of experiments and brain teasers by the end of the day! LOL!

In these pictures here with the blocks, the kids were sitting opposite each other and were supposed to follow instructions on how to build each other's creations. Here Jonathan went first and gave directions for Jayla....

....and this is what she ended up with. :)

Not too bad, really! I probably would have done the same with the way he gave instructions, but it helped us all to give *better* instructions with more details. They both did very well for their first time!

We played this game for quite a while, each of us taking turns, and Jacob finally got tired of waiting for us.

Here, if you look in the monitor on the right, you can see each of them while they took a turn in the Mercury capsule (I can't remember the exact name of it). Jayla looks so young here! This actually moved and the operator was flipping switches and communicating with them the entire time. We were concerned that Jayla might freak out a little, but she loved it and wanted to go again!

There is so much more I did not even get pictures of, and we only saw maybe half the museum in the SEVEN HOURS we were there!!!