Science Museum, take two

My family, My happy place

We absolutely LOVE the Science Museum and wanted to go there again before we move. One of the best things about the Science Museum, is that you are learning so much, while having fun, and its not just for kids there is so much for you to learn as an adult. I highly recommend you go there. So through our library system we were able to "check out" 4 free tickets to Arizona Science Museum. We were so glad to be able to go again, there were even new exhibits since we were there last September: The physics room and another room that I am not sure what it was called, but it seemed to have to do with the mind, why we do things, thought process, etc. Also the water fountain wasn't working last time, but was today. Ava also was able to appreciate the things around her a little more (last time she wasn't even 2 months, pooped on mom twice and threw up, this time she just threw up and on Dad, not mom).

Here are some photos of our fun afternoon:

What can I say, I just love this photo.

Hard at work in a construction area. We definitely see and hear enough of this these days at our place.

The girls playing in the home building room.

This is a concentration type activity were you are both concentrating on this ball and you are trying to move it towards your opponent.

You were supposed to put a baby or small child on this table and they wold be too scared to go to the other side because of the depth perception (this was in the mind room), this did not bother Ava at all! She would gladly go after my keys. I was slightly surprised that it didn't bother her, because she loves to throw things off her high chair and then look over the side for them.

Katrena was so looking forward to wheel chair racing against Dad again.

Teaching moment in the Physics room. I love moments like this.

Katrena and this other little girl playing tug a war against 5 little boys, the girls won every time. The reason for the girls kept winning (they were in the physics room) the ropes were tied to a tall tower type thing only the girls side was tied at the top and the boys was more towards the bottom. They all knew why the girls kept winning, but those boys were still determined that they could beat the laws of physics and beat the girls.

Brent lying on a bed of nails in the Physics room.

In the physics room Trena pulling herself up with a rope. There were three of these, hard, harder and hardest. She could do the hard by herself, needed help at the end of harder, and hardest it took both of us.

Brent pulling himself up with a rope.

Ava loved this game, and would have gladly sat here all day, it was so fun watching her try to catch the ball. Every time she would knock it out of the way this little girl would grab it away and put it back (Brent and I would just look at each other each time she did this, with a half smile, a shrug, and a who knows). She did not want Ava to play this game. Ava would catch the ball every once in awhile, and one time this other girl yanked the ball right out of her hand (mind you there were four of these balls being blown up in the air, so Ava was not monopolizing it), I had to politely take the ball back and tell the little girl that Ava could play with the ball. I then looked around to see were her parents were, I couldn't find them. This girl was like 4 or 5, definitely should not be left alone.

This was in the physics room as well. We spent a lot of time in here because we had not done any of it before.

Katrena in the elements room. She pretty much played in the sand while I listened to a presentation on volcano's and dad fed Ava. There was nothing new in this area, but we again watched the show about the different types of weather/elements, and it is just really neat to experience.

Mom and her girls.

Dad and his girls.