Impressions 5, Billy's first Visit

The kids loved our first trip so much, that they wanted to show Daddy the cool science museum!  

We did lots of the same things, and yet still managed to find new things to see & do.  

We spent little to no time at the trains last time, so they were a big hit this time.

Alice found a couple of other big kids, and they built up enough speed that the water almost shot up to the ceiling bucket!

Emily loves to be plaque

Billy taught the twins how to operate his favorite piece of medieval machinery.*

The inside of a fire hydrant.  I alone found it interesting.

We spent probably an hour at the paper plan launching station.  They had a great time folding, launching and relaunching their planes.

The bubble room was still a favorite.  Alice spent half of her trip in this space.

She also mastered catching a bubble on her hand!

She even taught grace her secrets.

Everybody loved it when daddy pulled them up on the lift.  But not a single one wanted to hang around for his lecture on why it worked. Poor daddy. = )

We all spent some time building with the variety of options they have available.

The closest think I could make to a cube.  They didn't have the correct connectors.  Juliet was the perfect assistant.

Alice's answer to building a cube.

Emily built an arch!

It got knocked over, so she had to rebuild it.

 Grace talked Billy into coming into the Eye.

Juliet's response when I told her we couldn't go into the baby room any more, since she is a big girl now!

Alice was able to enjoy time in the 9 years and up room (poor Emily was quite jealous.)  But, Emily will turn 9 before our membership expires, so she'll have an opportunity to enjoy it too.

William and I had to put a column in his "house," but it made the magnet panels stable enough to lean upon!

Somehow, we spent even longer there than we did the first time, and everyone, except for Grace, was still not ready to go!

And with the conclusion of this second trip, the membership cost is now less than the cost of any subsequent trips!

later days

*unless of course you consider the crossbow machinery instead of technology, then the trebuchet would be 2nd favorite.

A collection of all the other pictures

There are just a few pictures here and there that I want to keep, but don't need an entire post. Or maybe I should aim to blog daily or weekly, then I could post little posts and have these in individual posts.  I smell a new year's resolution....

Making cornflake wreaths!

Daddy gets extra cinnamon imperials. =  )

An afternoon of writing envelopes to all the people in my life that I love.

William claimed the Santa hat when we were unpacking our Christmas bins.

My mom found this awesome tiny wooden nativity at a yard sale for the kids to play with.  They enjoy it, and they leave my inherited one alone. = )

These two party so hard!

Emily ate her poptart into the shape of a guns up! Wreck'em!

I love these creative little gnome trees! = )

All five of my children were invited to Big Emily's birthday party this weekend.  We did our best to give her something she'd like, which is currently unicorns!  The boxes have a bracelet and necklace in them, respectively.  I asked my Emily what she liked best, but she wasn't sure.

Last week was a school fundraiser at the skating rink.  So, we loaded up and enjoyed dinner at the rink while the kids wore themselves out on a Thursday night.

My poor alice has been less than 100% all week. = (

Emily's class had the greatest number of students present, so they won the laser tag game. = )

On Wednesday, We got to have lunch with Daddy and Aunt Rocky!  It was super quick, because I had somewhere to be, but it was a nice treat to eat with them. = )

Such a fun season!

later days