Livy and I had an awesome day today, and I just wanted to write about how great it was. Our schedule has returned to my usual in-school schedule. I go to school and work Monday-Thursday, and I get Livy Thursday night and keep her until Monday morning. So, I had been missing her all week long.
So Friday morning, I got up before her and spent some time on the computer chillin' on Facebook and Twitter and the Blogosphere. Then, I cuddled Aaron awake. (I am trying to get him on my new early schedule, so I dare not let him sleep in.) When I was reasonably sure he wouldn't roll over and fall asleep again, I went in and cuddled Livy awake too.
With all this cuddling taken care of, I took a shower. When I got out of my hot, pleasant shower, Livy was getting ready. We decided we would go to the Tellus Science Museum (which we love and have a membership to and go to all the time). Usually, Livy wants to stay home and do quiet restful alone kind of things, like books and movies and video games. But today she was up for adventure, so yay!
At the museum, we watched a movie about how the earth was formed and how life evolved on it and half a movie about Saturn (cause it was dead boring and we walked out). We looked at the fossil gallery with lots of different dinosaurs, huge mammals (mammoths and such), flying and swimming reptiles, and about 4 million trilobites. Livy got to dig for fossils in their kid's area, and we brought home a fossilized shark tooth.
We spent a little time in the rock and mineral gallery, mostly looking at what kinds of mineral were in the products we use. We saw the spots on the world map where earthquakes happened today and yesterday, and we looked at igneous vs. metamorphic vs. sedimentary rocks. Livy got to pan for tiny minerals, and we brought home a small bag of rock samples.
We looked at a replica of Orville and Wilbur Wright's plane and read all about them and their first flight. (We talked about Kitty Hawk and the Outer Banks in honor of you, Jenn.) Livy did many hands-on science activities like breaking light into a rainbow using a prism, changing the amplitude and frequency of sound waves in a tube with sand, and moving metal from one place to another with an electromagnet she could turn on and off.
We've been to the museum a million times and done all of these things before, but something about today was just special. We had missed each other, but we miss each other often. It was just one of those glorious days when the two of us click - we want to do the same thing in the same way and do it together.
A quote from Anne of Avonlea sums it right up:
"'After all,' Anne had said to Marilla once, 'I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.'"
8/20/10
