Dinosaur Delights

Dinosaurs. Fossils. Puppets. Oh my!

The kiddos had a fantastic time at a special dinosaur day at the museum with Mama. Yep, we're back in a dino phase, thanks in great part to "Dino Dan," the Canadian tv show about a kid who studies dinosaurs which he actually sees wandering around his neighborhood. They love it.

And they loved being at the museum--for 4+ hours!--with Mama. They colored dinosaur hats, saw a puppet show, touched dinosaur fossils, and participated in a "sand dig," finding one fossil each to keep. They did non-dino things too, like visiting the dioramas and the Egyptian exhibits, exploring the space installation, and exploring the discovery room, with its ant colony. When they got home, they turned the basement into a museum.

At home, I walked, blogged, researched colonial life for the historic house, read, made pie dough, watched the movie Bright Star on Keats and his love Fanny Brawne (good in that BBC way, though it was by the director of The Piano), and thoroughly enjoyed a very long free time.

Funny how kids change focus so quickly, though: today it's Harry Potter; yesterday it was medieval knights. I imagine it'll be ninjas and Star Wars again soon, plus school/restaurant/hotel.

But it'll still be "Dino Dan" everyday.

Checking the Web

So, Bud has this magnetic dinosaur playset that has become a favorite of his again. We were downstairs this morning before school playing with it, naming all the dinosaurs. And there was one I didn't know. Of course, they weren't labelled. So, knowing we had no books with it, we came upstairs to check the internet. And after googling "dinosaur with claw thumb" we found it, almost the exact same picture. He was thrilled. He ran downstairs and told Sis immediately. "We found the dinosaur on the computer. It's an Iguanadon!"

Long live research (made so much easier by the world wide web)!