Dinosaur Day

A few weeks ago in preschool, Abby learned about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  Imagine my delight when we drove downtown on Monday to pick up Roy from work and Abby shrieked, "That's the Washington Monument!"  Of course we had to snap the traditional picture.

 Our future paleontologist(s) wanted to go see some dinosaurs so since we live so close to so many great, free museums, we made a morning of it.  We were only downtown for about 2 hours, but had the greatest time!  Sam literally ran from exhibit to exhibit in this cute bounce-run.  He was wowing and enthusiastic and we just couldn't help laughing as we enjoyed him taking it all in.  Abby was very intrigued with videos, buttons, and soaking in as much information as she could through the whole Natural History Museum.  She picked up on lots of fun facts and fell even more in love with dinosaurs and animals.

Sam and Roy with Sam's favorite dinosaur, Triceratops.

 Sam, Roy, and Abby with Abby's favorite dinosaur, T-Rex.

A fuzzy and different shot of Abby with the T-Rex.  Seeing the T-Rex was the best part of her day.

Last night at dinner, Abby was picking through her mixed vegetables and very carefully picked up a lima bean.  "What's this?", she asked with a look of pure horror.  "A lima bean."  "Oh," she said and then paused before continuing, "That's disgusting!"  Roy and I were dying to keep the laughter in.  I love hearing the kids as they learn how to appropriately use new words.  It's a recipe for laughter.

We were taking the kids to the neighborhood park yesterday and they were running ahead of us.  Roy saw the puddle at the same time that Sam did.  Roy took off, calling for Sam to stop.  Sam of course either didn't hear or decided not to hear (the second is more likely) and ran even faster, not stopping as he plowed through the 6-foot mud puddle.  Another time where I had to stop everything and double over to laugh.  Man, our kids are hilarious!  I can only imagine how many stories we will be collecting in the future.