Austronaut food

When we were at the Naval Aviation Museum in February, I bought a package of astronaut food. It was an ice cream sandwich. I had been told that it was "the best of this kind of food." I will never be an astronaut; if only cuz the food is so NOT good. Interesting yes. Good no. It's free dried so kind of "rehydrates" on your tongue.

Here is K pretending to like it.

C's face tells more of the true story.

It was an experience. But I sure do feel sorry for those astronauts.

Naval Aviation Museum

While we were in P'cola for my dad's funeral, we took a day for a field trip. we went to the National Museum of Naval Aviation. I have always loved going out there. It has grown over the years and especially since we were there last.

The Children's Museum-again

I love that place! And I love that we have a membership and can go anytime we want. This time Daddy was able to go with us. And he took his really nice camera so we got some really nice pictures. 322 of them! I wonder what Blogger would do if I tried to download them all.

Here are the highlights.


K loves the carousel. Absolutely loves it. We went on it twice and both times her smile was this big and she clapped and waved at everyone (she's gonna be a mayor one day) and had the best time.


C was pretending to be a dinosaur and lay eggs. Silly boy.


This is the outside of the museum. Pretty impressive.

I think the effect of this picture is so cool.

Notice anything wrong with this backpack? Look at the name and then look at the picture. This was hanging in the "house" in the Egyptian exhibit. Wonder if they noticed the "FAIL."

In the Barbie exhibit, there is a number you can text the word BARBIE to and you will get a call from Barbie. K thought that was pretty cool. When I asked her what she said, "Stuff."

At the drawing board making new creations for Barbie's line of clothing.

I think what the wall says explains it all.

The current traveling exhibit right now is Polar Bears to Penguins. So K got to dress up as a penguin and slide down the ice. Did you know that a polar bear will never eat a penguin? Do you know why? Polar bears live at the North Pole and penguins live at the South Pole. Interesting.

Here they are measuring the distance from our city to the south pole. A long ways.

K was selling tickets to the train. Looks like she's in jail.

C and his "bright idea." Goofy kid.

I know this is blurry but I wanted you to see it anyways. The light kept moving and changing colors and shapes. So the kids were chasing it all over. It was kinda fun to watch them. Wish I had that much energy.

And this is my favorite picture of the day. Even though the kids aren't in it. I thought Daddy did such a good job capturing the carousel. Isn't that just so neat? Good job Daddy!

Children's Museum-again

Since we bought a family year's membership to the Children's Museum, I am bound and determined to make good use of it. I took the kiddies yesterday, by myself. I was more worried about getting lost than anything else. But Maggie (our GPS) did very good in getting us there and back.

We had fun, even though we were only there for a few hours. The first thing we did was ride the carousel. We did ride again later-two more times for a total of 3! K loves the carousel!

Then we went back and checked out the Legos again. We actually weren't in there as long as last time.

Next was the new Star Wars exhibit. I was really disappointed. There wasn't much to look at. We looked maybe 10 minutes. Most was "info" on who wore this and how they made that and whose idea was such and such. Not stuff C would care about. There was a wall mural of some characters that was cool. And there was a display of different weapons that C liked. Otherwise, it was a let down.

So we went on to other stuff: the Health House where my kids actually pretended to wash dishes. I took a picture because that may be the only time I ever see that.
After the museum, we went to Stake and Shake for lunch. The kids ate really good so we got shakes for them to work on in the car on the way home (I didn't want K to fall asleep before we got home).

We had a great time; just wished that Daddy could come with us every time.

Glove plants

Remember from the Children's Museum post I told you about planting seeds in plastic gloves? I wasn't too sure how they would do. One "hand" did OK (2 seeds are growing) and the other "hand" only has one growing. But I think it's kinda cool to see. (I think I'm the only one interested)

Here are pictures from the Museum, while the kids were getting the gloves all ready.

And here they are hanging in my kitchen window, making beautiful curtains.

And here is the most recent pictures, showing the growth of the plants.

I probably won't keep them in my window much longer. I think we have proved that they can grow. And besides, I don't think anyone else cares.

New toys

This post is a little late, but oh well. I want to remember, so bare with me.

The kiddies both got to pick something out from the store at the Children's Museum. C picked out a little Lego set. When we got home, he put it together all by himself. Daddy just did minimal supervision. Good job, C!

There really wasn't much there for K girl that was within our price range. So she didn't really get to pick. She got this magnet book with a lot of food magnets to tell the story with. She had fun playing with them on the fridge too.

Children's Museum

Friday, Daddy took off work and we went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum. There is a Lego's exhibit there that we really wanted to see. And we love going there. And it's been a long time since we had been there--K had just turned one the last time we were there!

We left a little later than anticipated, due to some TV difficulties (see future post). We got there around 10:30 or so and didn't leave the museum til close til 4 that afternoon. It was a long day, but we had so much fun.

There are 5 levels of stuff to see (one level was the store, ticket center, and food court-so really only 4) and you could spend hours on each level. The first level (which was actually the basement) had a whole train section with a real engine, a LOT of toy trains on display, a ticket counter (to sell train tickets) and ....

...what they call Fireworks of Glass. It is a massive amount of blown glass in all different shapes and colors. It's really pretty. K girl really liked this exhibit. They even had some that you could play with. The tower goes through the middle of the museum almost to the top level.

On this level they also had an "underwater" adventure and a entire section on mummies.

From the basement we went into the Dinosphere exhibit which is actually on 3 floors. There are skeletons, puzzles, places you can draw, displays, movies, the Dinosphere (kinda like a Planetarium but with dino stuff), a place the kids can do a "dig", and a Prep lab. K really liked this huge "nest" with eggs in it. She talked about it on the way home and it took us a little bit to figure out what she was talking about. The prep lab was pretty cool: they were actually working on real fossils. That was interesting to see.

The next level houses the "revolving" exhibits. Until May 3 there is a Lego exhibit and a Comic book exhibit. The Lego one was AWESOME! They had all kids of Lego's in there! All sizes. K loved building. She worked on a Princess castle. She actually cried when we had to move on. (For those of you needing birthday presents, take note. I think they are the "Duplo" brand of Lego's) There were some awesome displays in there too. Here is just one example. The entire dragon is made out of Lego's. Impressive!

There was also a slide, dress up costumes, magnets, and a "Lego video game" in this section. For the game, you designed your own catapult and tried to break down the castle wall. Pretty cool.

Then we went into the Comic book exhibit. There is actually one of the Batmobiles that was used for the new movies. That was really cool. And A LOT of comic books (according to the display, there was almost 20, 000!). I guess it was someone's collection that was donated to the museum. And all kinds of figurines, more dress up stuff, posters, movies, and more hands on stuff.

The next level has what they call the PlayScape, which is a lot of fun if all the other kids there are well supervised. You and I both know, that happens. It's more for K's age, but they both had fun. There's more dress up (K was a bee), a water table, a sand table, you can plant "flowers", a play house, some slides.... but all geared for littler ones. The other things on that level we skipped, cuz they are a little above my kiddies and K was getting very grumpy cuz it was nap time. So we went on up to the next level.

Up here was the Science Works, where once again, it's alot of fun if the other kiddies are supervised. There is a construction site with some machines that you can use and they have "dirt" to use. There were some older kids that were throwing the dirt. Ouch! We left that section quickly. But there were other cool things, like hulu hoops, buckets to walk on (remember these?)

They also had an oversized tic tac toe, and oversized connect four, checkers, Mr. Potato Head, video games (PS2, Xbox, Nintendo, etc). They also had a Biotechnology Learning Center. I think for the older kids, they explained DNA, but for my kids age it was much simpler. They got to plant seeds in plastic gloves. They soaked cotton balls with water and put them in the fingers of the glove. On each cotton ball they put a different seed. With sunlight and some air, these should grow in the glove. They are currently hanging in my kitchen window (nice curtains) and we will see. If they turn out well, I'll post their results. There is also a carousel on the top floor that we rode.

On our way out, we stopped by the cardboard construction Lego guys for pictures. Then we went to eat (see future post), stopped at Wal Mart for a few groceries, stopped at Best Buy, Target, and Game Stop looking for an extra Wheel to go with our new Mario Kart for the Wii. No one had it except Game Stop. Why didn't we just try there first? We finally got home around 7 pm. It was a long day, but we had so much fun! (And now this is a really long post!)