Ruby, Grandma and Grandpa in the ambulance
2007 September 25 · 9:10AM · Tuesday
Grandma, Grandpa, C
2007 September 25 · 9:46AM · Tuesday
Grandma Susie is standing at the top of that platform. The idea is you drop a ball down the ramp and see how far it will go. Most of the time it goes all the way down to the end, where C is picking balls out of the red box.
C dropping the ball
2007 September 25 · 9:47AM · Tuesday
yeah, that’s just weird
2007 September 25 · 9:58AM · Tuesday
It was an exhibit about animals and life in the forest and how animals get around and stuff… they were trying to make the point that the sense of smell is very important to animals. But it just came off kind of weird.
C and an amimal torso
2007 September 25 · 10:04AM · Tuesday
Play Dr. Frankenstein to learn more about animals! These were magnetic bits of animals that you could recombine to make freakish creations.
Grandma Susie’s flying gorillephant
2007 September 25 · 10:04AM · Tuesday
Chris’s mutant giraffodile
2007 September 25 · 10:07AM · Tuesday
lord knows what that is
2007 September 25 · 10:09AM · Tuesday
an amphibious flamigorilla
2007 September 25 · 10:10AM · Tuesday
Grandma Susie, C, “stained glass”
2007 September 25 · 10:18AM · Tuesday
On a more normal note, what child doesn’t love squirting stuff with water bottles? The small plastic shapes stick to the large plastic wall with water.
C squirting more
2007 September 25 · 10:18AM · Tuesday
C placing a shape
2007 September 25 · 10:20AM · Tuesday
meanwhile, back at Frankenstein’s ranch…
2007 September 25 · 10:24AM · Tuesday
Grandpa Randy and Chris where back there playing with the animals the whole time C was doing the “stained glass.”
Randy and Chris laughing
2007 September 25 · 10:24AM · Tuesday
confused tigerilla
2007 September 25 · 10:24AM · Tuesday
dada sign
2007 September 25 · 10:27AM · Tuesday
Ok, to make this sign make sense, you should know: 1. the Iowa Children’s Museum has a turtle named Peter, and 2. the sign was on the wall next to a giant papier mache turtle. I think Chris just thought the phrase “Monster Peter” was too good to pass up.
C in the construction area
2007 September 25 · 11:47AM · Tuesday
C constructing
2007 September 25 · 11:52AM · Tuesday
C working on a wing nut
2007 September 25 · 12:08PM · Tuesday · Coralville, Iowa
C in his element
2007 September 25 · 12:15PM · Tuesday
Ruby on the slide
2007 September 25 · 12:27PM · Tuesday
Chris and Ruby go down the slide
2007 September 25 · 12:30PM · Tuesday
Ruby the lil hopper frog
2007 September 25 · 12:32PM · Tuesday
lil hopper Ruby going to work in the field
2007 September 25 · 12:35PM · Tuesday
After the disappointment about Portland’s Children’s Museum being closed, we were doubly happy to revisit Iowa City’s Children’s Museum. We had a ton of fun with Grandma Susie and Grandpa Randy playing in the exhibits.