Bay Beach Swings

 The "kiddie" swings were one of Henry's favorite ride at Bay Beach. Sister went on this with him as well, but she also did the big kid swings. He was on some of the "baby" rides at first and we thought he had that scared comatose look, but that wasn't so. I figure that was the look of sheer boredom. This boy likes a little excitement. When he got on rides that were more thrilling for his age, then he perked up and smiled and laughed.

I did do a video of him on the swing for the first time. I am trying to remember to do some videos of the kids. We were just watching a bunch of videos we took of Sister at this age. There are more pictures from Bay Beach that I hope to post, but this is the only ride I did a video of.

Will Henry Remember Venus?

 I am not sure that either kid will remember seeing Venus as it passed by our view in front of the sun, because it's not a huge spectacular thing since all you see is a small black dot in front of a great big circle.

 Maybe they will remember looking in to the telescope and when we take them to some other viewing sponsored by the Astronomical Society they will remember looking through a telescope. I wonder if it was any more spectacular to go to a Planetarium for something like this or if the results were similar.

 What you see here is what we saw at one of stations. They had 4 viewing stations all set up in a different fashion and this one was projected on to a piece of paper in a bin, and we looked through a telescope (see above; also there was a second telescope to look through that we did not) and one that was put on a tv screen and was being recorded.

More WI Dells Pics

 These pictures were on the waterproof camera and are from the last day at WI Dells (in February). It was in our swim bag for the last 1.5 months and I had forgotten about it until I needed a camera and couldn't find the other one, so thought I would see if I could locate this one & found these pictures on there.

Playing Outside

Just some fun pictures of playing outside with Henry

Trip to the MN Zoo

 I don't remember what animal is in this exhibit, but his friend thought it smelled and plugged his nose and said Ewwww!, so Henry had to do it too!

 Posing on some rocks. Cheese! Wish I could get him to look at the camera.

 A picture of mommy & Henry by the sculpture of the wolves.

 Going through a tunnel.

 Intrigued by the Leafy Sea Dragon

 Posing in the shark jaws

Pointing out a stingray swimming in the pool

Pics of Henry

 Henry wanted his picture taken too since I was taking a picture of his sister. His hair is growing back all the curls nicely. I want to keep the curls around for another couple weeks, but we'll see what kind of weather we have and if it just becomes a hot mess for him. Then we'll head back to the barber and get him a little boy cut again. But for now he can look like a soccer player or a hockey player.

MN Children's Museum

 I think the Habitot room was his favorite and I felt best about him being in there since they can't just walk out and everything is at their level. That room is for ages 4 & under.

 This slide is in the Habitot room as well. He can get in some good crawling, climbing & sliding in this room. He likes all the other rooms too, it's just harder to keep an eye on him when he's so short and fast.

I need to say he is short instead of small because he got mad at me the other day and told me he was big. He wants to be big, not small. Short seems to be acceptable (for now.)

 Of course the room with water & bubbles is always a huge hit.

 Playing in the water.

 This "factory" always cracks me up watching the kids work so hard to get the blocks through their part of the assembly line and have no idea that they are moving the same blocks over & over.

This was in the Storyland exhibit. They boy wouldn't slow down enough for me to get a decent picture of him in here. His favorite part of this exhibit was walking over the "snow" from A Snowy Day and putting the letters up the coconut tree for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.