Life and Science

Kate is in "Pirates and Princesses" camp this week at school.  She goes 9-12, which means that Brett and I get 3 peaceful hours to ourselves.  We miss Kate greatly, of course!  Because I have to work three days this week and I have a haircut one day this week, I wanted to take full advantage of this morning and only do stuff that would be fun for him.  Last year when Brett was in VBS and I had Kate all morning, I took her to the NC Museum of Life & Science, which is about 20 minutes from our house.  She loved it because we were able to do things that only she was interested in, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to do the same with Brett.  Plus, he loves all things science-related, so I knew that he would love this museum!  We were there for 2 hours and only got to see the inside exhibits.  We never made it to the butterflies, animals, dinosaurs, playground, etc. that are all outside.  We could've easily spent more time there.  For the price, it probably wasn't worth going for only 2 hours, but he loved every second of it, which made it ok!

We went straight for the Keva planks and started constructing our buildings.  Brett found a picture of an airplane and wanted to build that too!

It was very cool to see all of the space exhibits after watching the shuttle launch the other day.

After several tries, Brett finally got one to stay up by himself!

A few minutes in the little kid section to show off the ball track - around the room, down the wall, zig-zag, and into the bucket

These beads make me cringe... I feel so sorry for the people that have to clean up this station every day!

We probably played here for a good 30 minutes - the goal is to make a pattern to cover the given shape, in this case a hexagon.  Brett decided to use the shapes to make a car instead :)  I know you're shocked!

Then he helped me finish my triangle with the finishing hexagon!  Ta da!