Geeked out fun

Here are the pictures I promised earlier:


Benjamin dancing to a goofy song about the sun (the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees...)


Watching the sun burn holes in leaves


Samuel's holey leaf


Benjamin was too impatient to use a green leaf. (Actually, he was pretty impatient on this. I did most of it.)


Good thing it didn't burn all the way through his LEG!!


What it looks like from the back side of the leaf


Nathaniel's leaf


Looking studly in their 3-D glasses


By the movie sign


My guys under the Saturn V. Samuel did not like the sun being in his face.


Mark made fun of me for laying on the sidewalk, but I thought looking up the rocket was neat.


I TOUCHED A ROCKET!!!!


Me too. Would you put me down now??


Saturn I (far left), Mercury Redstone (far right) Not sure about the two in between. (Nathaniel had to tell the two I do have labeled)


Base of the Saturn V


Middle of the Saturn V


Top of the Saturn V


A-12 SR-71 Blackbird (Thanks to Nathaniel again for the name)


Blackbird's missile


The boys standing in front of Blackie's missile, just to show how BIG this thing is


Stopping to smell the flowers


Welcome to the US Space and Rocket Center-Home of Space Camp


By the monument of Miss Baker- the first American animal to fly into space and return alive


See what I mean


Miss Baker gets a five-feet tall monument and her hubby Big George just gets a stone on the ground.


Mark and the boys at the Purple Heart Monument


Closer up of the monument.

We did not pay for a museum pass, because my undiagnosed ADD family (me being the main one) gets bored trying to do a movie and museum. We just wanted to see Fly Me To the Moon before they stop playing it. I was surprised to see that there were so many things available for us to see free.

The Best Day of My Almost 11 Years....

That is what Nathaniel said about getting to go to Take Your Child To Work Day. Did I mention this was at the Marshall Space Flight Center which is a division of NASA??? A very sweet lady we go to church with works there and asked if he could go with her. Could I really say no??? He got to see a mission control room, an astronaut training area, ooh, and a gift shop where he got TWO 4-D puzzles that are models of space craft. They even got to make their own security badges. He has even worn his around the house. Too cute!!!


He got to take this picture while there.

The rest of us kind of took it easy for the day. We had a loaf of bread that got squished on the way home from the store, so we decided to feed some local wildlife.


Notice how fearless Samuel is going right up to the ducks and cautious Benjamin is standing back!!



This duck was asleep when we first got there, but quickly woke up when we opened the bread!!!


My handsome guys!!!


Every time we tried to throw bread to the baby ducks, one of the bigger ducks would snatch it up. Samuel became determined to make SURE that the babies got some. He tore up several pieces into tiny bits then threw it piece by piece very quickly so that even if the bigger ones were faster there would be some for the babies, too.


We even met a friendly squirrel. We called him Pattertwig.


Peek-a-boo!!!


The boys decided they wanted to pick up some shells. Benjamin thought Nathaniel might be sad if he did not have shells while Benjamin and Samuel did, so he gathered up an extra handful for Nathaniel. He is such a sweety!!!