Thursday, December 30, 2010

Dinosaur Museum

We love going to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point when we visit Grandma's house.  Look how tiny Captain Adorable is next to the dinosaur bones!
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The sand and water table is always a big hit for the kids.  This is the first time that Captain Adorable got to play in it and he loved it.
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He was mainly interested in swishing the water at first.
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I was surprised when Handsome Husband told me that this was his first visit to the museum.  We had come so many times that I thought for sure that he had come before.  
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Ballerina had the best time making a swimming dinosaur swim in the water.  I dammed up some water so she could have a pool for it.
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Sweetie wanted to bury all her dinosaurs. Every dinosaur she found was covered.
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Papa took Captain Adorable around for a little walk to get a break from the water.  Not that Captain Adorable WANTED a break...
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Captain Adorable came back and found that he really enjoyed throwing sand.
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He got his shirt covered in it.
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He always does this, winding up for the throw while looking straight at me.  Like he's making sure that I'm watching.
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Ballerina made a couple of friends at the table.  She had a great time interacting with other kids.  I think she'd been missing it since being on vacation and away from school and Ben.
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We always get a picture by this dinosaur statue.
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I wanted to get a picture of the kids by the triceratops.  Sweetie has spent much of the trip watching the Land Before Time movies over AND OVER AND OVER again.  She really likes dinosaurs.
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I love this picture.  Sweetie looks so cute.  Ballerina was too scared of the shark.  I wish I'd gotten a picture of Ballerina by the mammoth bones because she was really enthralled with them.  Even after our trip to Utah she was going on and on about "mammoth-es."  She wanted to tell her friends all about how they are bigger than elephants and that people used to hunt them.  She wants me to give her a lesson all about them.
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At the very end of the museum there is a big dig pit with bones hidden for kids to brush the sand off and discover.
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I had to carry Sweetie away kicking and screaming.  She was having too much fun and didn't want to leave.
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The kids had a total blast and they ALL fell asleep on the ride home!

1 comment:

Grandma J said...

We had SO much fun at the Dinosaur Museum with the kids!! Thanks for the wonderful photos and memories!!