Detroit Science Center

We spent a few hours at the Science Center today, it was so much fun! The special event was Animal Grossology - it highlighted the gross and disgusting aspects of animals and bugs - this first pic is a station all about flies, there was a microscope to look at fly legs, wings, and mandibles. The second pic is of a cow station that talks about passing *all* kinds of gas, and how food is digested and turns into said gas... that station was fun, you press a button to feed the cow, and then subsequent buttons to initiate the following digestive processes.


The water play area, and a Mackinac Bridge replica:

Playing With Light (and a movie)

This wall was covered in windows, some concave and some convex. I think he could've played with this all day...


My sis was playing with my little guy from the other side of the windows:


A different wall was covered in mirrors of different colors and shapes, check out his reflection in the orange mirror!


This film was set up so that you could turn a dial and progress or reverse through frame by frame, it was so interesting I had to post a short movie of the man-child playing with it...

More Playing With Light (and a movie)

Every little circle lit up at different times, our little guy is trying to "catch the lights" in this pic.


This station shows how white light is made up of all colors.


Inside a giant kaleidoscope:


Each drum was connected to a different light, so that when you hit the drum the light came on:

Playing With Electricity

I know how that sounds, but we played safely ;)

Tday Parade

TALK ABOUT COLD!!! It's amazing how windy, wet, and *freezing* it was for the parade - but it was worth it! We really had a fun time watching the entire two and a half hours of bands, balloons, floats, and miscellaneous entertaining groups of people (the Businessman Briefcase Drill Team comes to mind, hehe -and no, I am not joking). Well, my sister and I watched the whole thing, but my children became small living icicles so our hubbies and parents took them back to the apartment (parents came back to watch the tail end and the kidlets and hubby-men watched the rest out of the apartment window/on tv). By the time the parade ended my sister and I were numb in the legs, face and hands so we bought some hot-dogs from a street vendor and then had some hot chocolate in a near-by establishment with our parents. After that we went back to the apartment and fixed Tday Dinner (which totally deserves to be capitalized based on the sheer amount of effort that must be put into said *Dinner* which -as my father in law pointed out- it takes so long to prepare and clean up after, it's such a shame that it's over in only fifteen minutes that you almost wonder, "why all this fuss"?)

Our kids shaking hands with a D Town police woman:


These were fun:


Yes, these people were really boarding on a moving halfpipe. Totally rad.


Obligatory Santa Appearance Photograph:

Princess Photogenic

Cute, isn't she?

Tday Prezzies!

Mom brought prezzies for all the grandkids!


They were so excited with their goodie bags! Books, pens, pencils, paper, stickers, socks, a Cars tin for the Man and a Hello Kitty purse for the Princess.


Even the one that's too little to be seen! Yes, that's my preggo sister!

Pin on those Tail Feathers!

Mom brought a fun game - Pin the Tail Feathers on the Turkey! Both kidlets did a great job...


Not sure if the same can be said for Mommy and Daddy!

Dinner!

Hubby and I decorated the table this year:


Dinner was scrumptious!

Night Walk

A nice couple took our picture, so I took theirs too...


Daddy and his Princess


The ice rink in down town, the trees in Circus Park

The Golden Compass

What a shame... I was really looking forward to seeing this, it looks really well done and interesting. Too bad it's about killing God. This strikes me as the kind of thing that needs to be revealed to every person (especially Christians) who are planning on viewing this film, so please share as you see fit:

You may already know about this, but I just learned that something about this movie (coming out in December) starring Nicole Kidman. The Golden Compass, while it will be a watered down version, is based on a series of children's books about killing God. Please follow this link, and then pass it on. From what I understand, the hope is to get alot of kids to see the movie - which won't seem too bad - and then get the parents to buy the books for their kids for Christmas. The quotes from the author sum it all up. I'm going to tell everyone about this movie.

http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.asp

HEY! We're in Detroit.

Hubby and I took the kidlets for a walk around D Town, these are a few things we saw:

A big tree, a big ring, and a big star's guitar (which I just had to take a pic of because I know the guy's drummer and thought it was pretty rad that his guitar is in a Hard Rock):


Daddy's first cuppa joe in eight months:


Oh, and if you haven't (or even if you have... I've done some updating like mad) been here in a while, please go back and see if you missed anything. I just put some entries into October to fill in a few gaps. Not much school stuff really, but lots and LOTS of pictures.