We Love the Museum!

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has become the boys' favorite place. As I write this, it is the beginning of April; we've already been to the museum twice, most recently last week, and they've begun asking when we're going back.

In February, the museum had a "free day", when admission is free for Colorado residents. Of course, we had to take advantage of that, if only for a few short hours. The boys especially loved the dinosaur exhibit...surprise, surprise. They enjoy the space exhibit as well.

Last week, we spent the day at the museum with my friend, Bree. We had to look at everything, sometimes twice; the boys especially liked pushing all of the buttons in the diorama sections. Alex also enjoyed sitting on the angled edges of the diorama cases, and sliding down to the floor. Since the Body Worlds exhibit is currently on display, there were a few volunteers scattered around the walkways, ready to share information about parts of the body. Zach listened intently to a kind, older man who carefully explained how the spine, discs and nerves in the back work, and demonstrated (with a little plastic model) the proper way to lift, so as to avoid rupturing said discs. I thought he was just being polite, which was fine by me, but a few days later, Zach reprimanded me for lifting Alex, because he's too heavy and I could break one of those things in my back like the man at the museum said...remember?