Tuesday, January 12, 2010

COSI: Part 1

B and I went to the Columbus Temple, and then Grandma and Grandpa M drove the kids to Columbus and we met them at COSI, the Center of Science and Industry. It's basically a science center or science museum. B's family went there several times when he was little, although it's since changed downtown locations.


The temperature was 18 degrees when we got out of the car.


This keyboard makes a different human sound for each key.
Buddy and Grandma tested it out.


Then Princess Sparkley had a turn.


Then Princess Sparkley performed lazer eye surgery. This was a lot like that "game" you play at the eye doctors when you have to hit a trigger every time you see a red dot, except you had to line up your lazer with the centers of big, bad circles and fry their centers.




This first wing of the museum was all over Baby X's head. There was a part of this floor just for babies to kindergartners, but we didn't make it there.


This exhibit was called Progress. This part was old timey with brick roads and carriages.


The next section of Progress was the mid 1960s with diners and such.


An ice cream parlor.


Baby X checks out the mustard while PS and Buddy play diner.


Outside the "hardware shop" was this rocket ride for 10 cents (with a few dimes sitting there for use).






Baby X especially enjoyed this ride. And kept running back to it after we'd moved to other parts of the "city."




The kids really liked this internal combustion engine exhibit.


Baby X trying to make his feet push the cylinder in.


Buddy pulling his own weight on a pulley.


Baby X spent a long time chasing after all these balls.




B rode this balancing unicycle across the second floor on a tight rope.


Sorry, this one turned out blurry.


This is what it's like trying to get three kids to pose in one shot.


And that was just one floor and the Messanine.

Columbus Ohio Temple





Photos by B

Grandpa's Trains





Highest Point in Ohio Trip


Buddy's riding arrangement for county trips and highest point trips = front seat fully reclined, headrest removed, and on this trip, he got Grandma and Grandpa M's GPS attached to his window.

Buddy and I went to the highest point in Ohio. It's a drive-up that involved less walking than Fort Reno Park in DC.After we took our pictures and left, I realized we'd forgotten to take them with our hands above our heads. Buddy said it was okay anyway. I said, "It'll be our only one not like the others? Should we go back or not?" He decided to go back.
High points visited so far: District of Columbia and Ohio.
by B

 And, they saw Warren G. Harding's home and burial site.




Grandma has A LOT of Legos



B's childhood

The part of Ohio B's parents just moved to is the same area they lived when B was 4-6, right before they moved to California. So after church on Sunday, we drove by to see his old house and old elementary school.


This house is apparently haunted... B will have to fill us in on that.

Check early December

I added a few posts to early December, so scroll down to make sure you see them.

Hockey

We arrived at Grandma's new house in Ohio, saw our Kansas cousins (including a new baby), ate dinner and then headed to a local hockey game with grandma, an uncle and the older Kansas cousins.


Daddy, Baby X and Buddy enjoying the hockey game.


Uncle B, cousin B and cousin M


Grandma and cousin R


Baby X


Buddy and Daddy watching the Zamboni.


Buddy wasn't sure which part of the game was best, the game, or the Zamboni.


Down close to watch the Zamboni.


Bubble watching the game with Baby X.


The game didn't start until 8 PM, an hour after Baby X's bedtime. By the time it ended it was nearly 11. Baby X was sleepy.

Driving to Ohio

B's parents moved to Ohio in August/September. It is about 9 hours from us. With the weather, stopping for lunch, and the few detours we made to get counties, it took us closer to 11 or 12 hours.


B peeing into the longest creek in West Virginia during a county getting detour.


Baby X you can see LOVED the drive (that's sarcasm). Actually, he was pretty good most of the time.

The boys get to work

The kids got bikes for Christmas. PS's was new, but Buddy's was used and required some work (adding training wheels, cleaning the chain, etc.). Buddy and Baby X were both happy to grab screwdrivers and help Daddy.





Princess Sparkley craziness



The kids are always bugging me to buy them Ring Pops at the store. So this year, Santa was nice and gave them one in their stocking. As you can see, PS's was blue.





PS got this Hannah Montana doll from her cousin E in California. These are just some of about 20 pictures I have on my camera of the Hannah Montana doll. I think Buddy must have taken this one above, but the rest are PS's work.