In honor of Free Museum Day, we invited Philip's sister, Dayla, to join us at Science Museum Oklahoma - the same place we celebrated last year's Smithsonian-sponsored Museum Day. It was remarkable to me to think that when we were enjoying these exact same exhibits last year Micaiah was being carried by Daddy in the front-pack baby carrier and we had no idea that when we returned at the same time the next year Mommy would be carrying a three-month-old baby in her sling. Oh the changes a single year brings.
This year we traveled the museum with a very independent two-year-old who liked any exhibit she chose herself and was not so impressed with the ones any adult tried to force on her. That's my stubborn girl.
After an hour or so of carrying Emmett around, though, I was ready to sit, so we piled into the Science Today show where Micaiah clapped, screamed, hollered, jumped and danced along with all the big kids while we watched the "Scientist" blow things up - and she didn't mind the explosions one bit!
And then there was precious Emmett. Each time the Scientist instructed the crowd to do something altogether, whether yell or clap at once, the poor little guy gave a little leap in his sling, eyes wide, looking around, while Momma kept one hand planted on the ear that wasn't already pressed against my chest. Eventually, though, he fell asleep, so much so that by the loudest explosion that ended the show (which had me using one hand to cover his ear, the other to cover one of my own and Dayla's elbow covering my second) he barely flinched and his eyelids didn't even flicker.
That's my little man.
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