JakeTV, broadcasting from the Children's Museum
Today Meemaw took the day off, which she used to take the fellers and myself to the most fantastic Indianapolis Children's Museum. Though we spent three hours there, we only saw part of two exhibits. Isaac has become recently taken by the story Danny and the Dinosaur -- a 64-page easy-reader that he will sit through in its entirety multiple times -- so we were entranced by their dinosaur exhibit.
The exhibit included dino costumes the boys could put on as well as a station with fake mountains and rivers to be played upon with plastic dinosaur toys.
We spent the majority of our time in this play area reserved for kids under 5. While Jakey played in their "discovery area" for babies and the padded baby maze, Isaac spent an hour at their expansive water table.
One curious thing I learned about my elder child is that he suddenly possesses an almost un-toddler-like attention span. Isaac spent a rapt twenty minutes sitting on the floor on his tush listening to a staffer explain the workings of their water-powered clock as it performed a ritual one-o-clock flushing. Twenty minutes without moving. He also urged me to sit down and listen to the lady. I remember, just before Jacob was born, taking him to story time at the library and us having to leave because he couldn't sit still for a librarian to read him a five minute book. What a difference a year makes.
The lighting in the museum was not so helpful for picture-taking, but it was just fine for movie-making. So enjoy a few short Jakey featurettes.
Meemaw taught Jacob how to drink from a water fountain (and no, he's not putting his mouth on the spout):
Navigating the baby maze:
A first decent video of our new favorite game -- Jake-in-the-Box:
The exhibit included dino costumes the boys could put on as well as a station with fake mountains and rivers to be played upon with plastic dinosaur toys.
We spent the majority of our time in this play area reserved for kids under 5. While Jakey played in their "discovery area" for babies and the padded baby maze, Isaac spent an hour at their expansive water table.
One curious thing I learned about my elder child is that he suddenly possesses an almost un-toddler-like attention span. Isaac spent a rapt twenty minutes sitting on the floor on his tush listening to a staffer explain the workings of their water-powered clock as it performed a ritual one-o-clock flushing. Twenty minutes without moving. He also urged me to sit down and listen to the lady. I remember, just before Jacob was born, taking him to story time at the library and us having to leave because he couldn't sit still for a librarian to read him a five minute book. What a difference a year makes.
The lighting in the museum was not so helpful for picture-taking, but it was just fine for movie-making. So enjoy a few short Jakey featurettes.
Meemaw taught Jacob how to drink from a water fountain (and no, he's not putting his mouth on the spout):
Navigating the baby maze:
A first decent video of our new favorite game -- Jake-in-the-Box:
posted by Claire at 11:05 PM
2 Comments:
That baby maze is awesome! And man, he's agile in that sucker. Obviousy he has this "mobile baby" gig down.
And "what a difference a year makes"? yea. Been saying that A LOT lately.
That water thing looks awesome. Gosh, Mo would love that thing!!
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