We spent a few minutes at the Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich, VT. This is a pretty cool museum aimed at children (and older kids - not naming any names NorthernDaddy). We were two hours away from home to attend a cross country meet that NorthernMommy had to coach some runners in, so we combined it with an opportunity to see a set of grandparents and cross off one more of NorthernMommy's items on her "must see" list.
The first thing Levi did after (well, as) Daddy was paying his admission was to run over to the giant tanks with trout and turtles and other fishies and proceed to point and shout at them. I think he might have been excited...it took a few of us to drag him away from the fish and convince him that there was more to the museum! The photo below shows "Andy's Place": a special play area for kids five and younger. It's pretty cool. There are treehouse platforms and a giant system of tubes to roll golf balls through and all kinds of stuff - Northern Baby wants his bedroom to look like this place....
Remember the kinetic sculpture that we mentioned a few months ago? Here's a smaller, wall-mounted version by the same artist. I really want one of these installed in my office! (If the winters get any longer up here, I might just start bending some metal for one...)
Grandpa Peter becomes the motor for another kinetic sculpture. See that long white coil/auger thingie in the center? That's what lifts the balls up to the starting point; and the ratio of hand crank to auger turning was about five to one - I think we wore out the old man with all the cranking he had to do!
Northern Baby(Toddler) spins up a dust devil in one of the interactive displays.
A giant xylophone/glockenspiel variant: made of granite! Not one of those sissy orchestral instruments - this is a monster! Look at the size of the mallet used to strike a note! (And because I know you're wondering; yes, I had to look up the spelling of xylophone. I knew how to spell glockenspiel, thank you very much!)
A musical fence. Put one of these in your backyard, add a toddler with a mallet, and your neighbors will never sleep again.
Actually, as I think about it some more; put one of these in your backyard, add beer and a typical adult male with a mallet, and nobody in the vicinity will sleep! I loved playing this thing!
Levi and Daddy try to tap out Handel's Messiah....Levi was consistently a measure ahead of the score....
NorthernMommy's cross country race was held in the rain. The two smart members of the family retreated to the car to take a nap and stay dry. Then we passed a few hours by turning the inside of the car into a playground. (Fold the seat down and you double the area for running around!)
We're not pulling weeds this late in the season (it's about to snow...), and they are responding by putting up pretty flowers. Here our model strikes a pose near the back fence line.
Visit to the pumpkin patch. When told to pick out only three pumpkins, Levi picks almost all of them to take home.
Aww, isn't he cute?!
Dad! - you're killing the pumpkin!!!! Oh No!
Eww, what's that stuff in there?
Say cheese!
Remember the kinetic sculpture that we mentioned a few months ago? Here's a smaller, wall-mounted version by the same artist. I really want one of these installed in my office! (If the winters get any longer up here, I might just start bending some metal for one...)
Grandpa Peter becomes the motor for another kinetic sculpture. See that long white coil/auger thingie in the center? That's what lifts the balls up to the starting point; and the ratio of hand crank to auger turning was about five to one - I think we wore out the old man with all the cranking he had to do!
Northern Baby(Toddler) spins up a dust devil in one of the interactive displays.
A giant xylophone/glockenspiel variant: made of granite! Not one of those sissy orchestral instruments - this is a monster! Look at the size of the mallet used to strike a note! (And because I know you're wondering; yes, I had to look up the spelling of xylophone. I knew how to spell glockenspiel, thank you very much!)
A musical fence. Put one of these in your backyard, add a toddler with a mallet, and your neighbors will never sleep again.
Actually, as I think about it some more; put one of these in your backyard, add beer and a typical adult male with a mallet, and nobody in the vicinity will sleep! I loved playing this thing!Levi and Daddy try to tap out Handel's Messiah....Levi was consistently a measure ahead of the score....
NorthernMommy's cross country race was held in the rain. The two smart members of the family retreated to the car to take a nap and stay dry. Then we passed a few hours by turning the inside of the car into a playground. (Fold the seat down and you double the area for running around!)
We're not pulling weeds this late in the season (it's about to snow...), and they are responding by putting up pretty flowers. Here our model strikes a pose near the back fence line.
Visit to the pumpkin patch. When told to pick out only three pumpkins, Levi picks almost all of them to take home.
Aww, isn't he cute?!
Dad! - you're killing the pumpkin!!!! Oh No!
Eww, what's that stuff in there?
Say cheese!
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