Monday, July 4, 2016

4th of July Weekend

Happy 4th of July! We stayed close to home but certainly kept Matt busy the whole weekend.

On Friday Matt and I went to the local children's museum. 

Of course Matt made a beeline for the train table

All geared up and ready to go in the fire truck

Looking through the window of the "fire house"

Putting some ketchup on toast

Mopping up

Driving the lunar rover

Being a butterfly

When we got the mail that night, we found a familiar hat and shirt in the photo under the upcoming engineering day at the children's museum.


Saturday we stayed at home, but Matt was inspired by a Curious George episode to make himself into a robot.

Robot Matt

Sunday some friends invited us to the Museum of Science, where Matt and their son both had a great time looking at as many animals and pushing as many buttons as they could find.

Climbing on the spider sculpture in the special spider exhibit

Watching the spider film with his friend

Taking a closer look at the bees

Looking at the real triceratops bones

Examining a dinosaur footprint

Looking at a model of a steam train engine

Looking at the poison dart frogs in the special frog exhibit

Examining shells and sea creatures with Dada

 
 Sitting on eggs in the bird's nest

Being a busy bee

Listening to a story about bees

Building a beaver lodge

Taking a rest with the beaver in his new lodge

Building a glider

Having a good time (thanks to our friend for the fun action shot!)

Sunday night Jon and Matt went to see our town's firework display. It apparently was quite the show; I heard from several friends who normally go that the town outdid itself this year. Matt enjoyed his first fireworks experience, although not so much the waiting for the sun to go down and the right amount of darkness to come. He told Jon his favorites were the red ones - although by the next morning he had changed his mind to the blue ones.

On the 4th we stayed at home. This is going to be a hot week, and Monday started off quite warm. Plus Matt was tired and cranky from all of his activity and his late night. (He chose to read under the covers instead of nap, so he was still tired and cranky later in the day.) Still, he managed to build "castles" out of blocks, line up dinosaurs to guard the kitchen, play games with Dada, and find plenty of things to do.