OMSI

So obviously, I've been dilatory in making posts lately. Pure laziness, I'm afraid, and the fact that I thought I didn't have any pictures to post - but I found some taken while we were visiting Oregon. My parents took our family to OMSI in Portland - the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. I used to love the place when I was younger. Our Oregon trip was great, actually, mostly because my mother takes my kids off my hands - she plays with them and feeds them, and I'm left with nothing to do but snooze in front of the TV. And I'm ok with that.

OMSI has interactive exhibits, which the kids really enjoyed. I'm not sure what Lear's doing in the picture, but he's probably learning something science-y.

Ella is holding some kind of carbon dioxide and soap bubble. It's pretty cool. The bubble sort of degrades on it's own, which the progression of pictures shows.

Lear quote: "Don't worry, Mommy, I'm sure Papa's toe has grown back by now." (We were discussing why Papa only has nine toes. It took a little while to explain why toes, unlike toenails, don't grow back.)

Ella quote: "Mama, you're so boo-ful. I wub-oo." You can hear my heart melting thirty feet away.