Dinosaur Museum.... A favorite of ours

I love to expose my boys to different things, and I also love doing things, so I am always looking for a good deal or discount on an activity. Well, the dinosaur museum is really expensive in my opinion, it is like 9 dollars a person or something, but in the month of August, they have there 2 buck Tuesday special. So if you can get past all the crowd, I can go to the dinosaur museum, farm country, and the children garden, all for the price of one days regular admittance to the museum. I love it, and so does the boys, which is why this has kind of become and annual thing. Eli is really fascinated by the bones. Some of the things he says about how big they are are so funny.

He was so fascinated by this bone. And once I explained to him what part of his leg it was and how big that same bone was on a dinosaur, then he was even more intrigued. He was the one that wanted the picture because he wanted to show his dad how big he was going to be when he gets bigger. Maybe the comparison to his own leg was not such a good idea. LOL

They have this new section that they have added since last year. Totally kid friendly and very hands on. It was a great addition to the museum. They have this really big magnetic board and then they have all these different bone pieces, then there are about 5 completed pictures of how you put the skeleton bones together. Eli was loving this puzzle type idea. He worked so hard to find all the right pieces to make this long neck. It took us a good 15 minutes, but he was very determined to finish it and he was so proud. I loved it. And I loved that he worked so hard to finish it, with very little assistance if I might add.

This is how Ethan spent most of the time we were there, which was actually a good thing because I was able to talk to Eli a lot and help him with some of the hands on activities.

I remember the days when Eli used to be so afraid of this guy. Now it is Ethans turn. He wanted nothing to do with it, but Eli posed for me a little.

Then Ethan woke up just about the time we got to the part were you can dig for bones and Ethan was so bright eyed because he had just had such a good nap. Eli and his brother could have played in the sand for hours. They were having so much fun.