"You should change out of your school clothes"

"Don't worry mom, we won't get muddy"

Bespectacled Children

The glasses came in today!

I tried to get some pictures of the kids. As usual, not very cooperative. Go figure. ;)

But here are some of them anyway.

I kind of think they are cute. I might be biased (mommy goggles will do that) but I think I might be totally right about this one. ;)

Mold-A-Rama baby!

When I was a little girl, we would go to Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo. Around the zoo were these plastic mold machines, and by the monkey house you could get a monkey or a gorilla, by the big cats you could get a tiger or a lion. You get the idea. And so we would get to have one. A little sidenote: I have a thing for smells. Good smells, bad smells. I'm sensitive. So that being said, I could smell these things the minute we got off the bottom step in the hall they were in at the Field Museum. I *love* the smell these things emit. It is not something one can describe. Suffice it to say, it makes me happy and reminds me of my childhood. So of course I said they could get one. I ran out of time the first time we went, so we made it a priority.

So you put in your money.

Then hot plastic gets shot into this metal mold. (Smells soooo good!)

 

Then a bright plastic animal emerges (in our case a dinosaur).

Then that little spatula thing comes at it and pushes it off into the drop where you can reach in and grab it. Careful! It will burn you. (Last time I noticed at the zoo they didn't have these machines anywhere any more. I was sad. I suspect they got sued. )

 

 

Then you just hold it upside down for a bit and let it cool. (Didn't take long for us. It was snowing outside and we left right after this. :) )

I wish I could get in their heads sometimes. Doesn't she look baffled? Lost? Something? Give me and adjective here. 

Ancient America. A tour.

The other full exhibit we saw (and we actually *still* missed the last part of it for lack of time) was the Ancient America exhibit. It was just incredible the sheer amount of things on display they had. It was a little overwhelming actually, and for me a little TOO much. You know, like when kids have too many toys, they don't appreciate them as much? Same thing for me here, just too many things to see, and I couldn't take it all in.

 

  

  

 

And so begins our love affair with corn. And yet...it was problematic even then in it's purest form. 

Just thought this was interesting. We used to be too thin and malnourished,

 causing fertility issues. Now we are too fat and malnourished, causing fertility issues.

The pottery collection was outstanding. Sorry about the blur, it was really dark and then the signs were lit from behind and it made it really difficult to take a picture in here.
The next stuff is mostly for Katie, I just thought she would like to see some samples.

This is object #2 above.

  

 

 

  

  

This is number 7. 

 

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Above are just misc. clothes from different time periods and tribes. The furry one's are from Alaska, as is the canoe and sled above.

Christmas fun!

One of the first things on our list of things to do in Tucson was to decorate Grammy and Pop's tree! Kira and Evan loved it since our tree was pretty lame this year. (IE: One small box of $5 ornaments from IKEA on a tiny little tree Jason and Shala loaned u. ;) )

Lame:


FUN!!!: