OMSI

Today I took Keaton to OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry) up in Portland. He has this idea that Portland is a whole new State and so he was thrilled to hear we were headed up north. Sully went to Melina's for the day and Mike stayed home working.

There's a new toddler/preschooler room at OMSI that is wonderful. I cannot wait to take Sully to play this fall.

Keaton played with a water feature, a wonderful sandbox that is not just sand, it had sparkly sand!

The museum has rotations of a "main event" of sorts. Right now the theme was dinosaurs. There were some mechanical dinos that looked completely real.

Keaton was actually convinced that they were absolutely real. He didn't believe me in the slightest that there were machines inside each of the dinosaurs. You will notice that there are no pics of him smiling in front of the dinos; this is because he was afraid to turn his back on them. Thought they'd attack him. Lol.

He was also fascinated with a visual of how the ear works. Here's a pic of him watching sound waves make the malleus, incus, and stapes (Oh my!) of the ear vibrate. Maybe he really will be a doctor when he grows up? ;o)

He also loved the silly mirror. He kept going back to it and would just stare in amazement and then go around to the back of the mirror to check to see if anything was there, then back to gaze at his funky reflection. Funny guy!