Milo and I met our friends M & J (M and I went to high school together!) at the Pumpkin Patch last Friday evening. Milo had a great time pushing and pulling the wagons, learning the names of the pumpkins, taking a train ride through the city farm and playing with his buddy. Milo has really great interpersonal skills; he knows all his friends names, their pets names and details from them homes where we have had playdates. It's a great skill to have; I hope he keeps it as his world gets bigger.
Here is happy Milo on his new bed (our old, but not that old, queen bed). After 5 long weeks of sleep issues, things took a big turn in a positive direction last week. After a trip to the pediatrician and new strategies, Milo now sleeps alone all night in his own big boy bed. I (Lyman has had very few, like 3, work-free evenings the past 5 weeks) have to start the night with him sitting in the chair (that I moved up from the living room. It's comfy enough to fall asleep in, somthing I have done a lot the past two weeks, but separate from his bed, where I will no longer lie. Sometimes he still wakes in the night, but is satisfied enough with an explanation that it's still sleepy time, and goes back to sleep.
Cute right? You have work a lot harder and pay a lot more money for adorable boy stuff, but it's worth it.
Today Milo and I went to The Skirball Cultural Center to visit the Noah's Ark exhibit. I have been to this museum before with 8th graders, and they do a wonderful job with adolescent fieldtrips; their talents certainly extent to children as well! This was a remarkable adventure that everyone living in or visiting the LA area should check out. While the exhibit was called "Noah's Ark" the experts there have made it very multicultural. They explained, in a soothing rain stick intro, that almost every culture has a flood story. Throughout the many gallery rooms of activities there were arks from all over the globe on display more museum like, everything else could be touched and played with.
Milo cooking in the kitchen.
Milo could pick out animal shapes from this net...
plug them into the conveyor belt....
an then this little guy cranked them up and into the ark- two by two.
This place really is remarkable! Many of the animals have been repurposed from other objects, and Milo was fantastic at identifying them. For example, when I asked him what this alligator's tongue was made of, he called out, bass! Close enough Daddy? don't know if you can tell from the picture, but the head holding the eyes, is a ladies leather glove.
Like the Lion King, this fox was a puppet of sorts that one of the museum guides walked around.
Naturally the ark would be dirty with plenty of droppings, but it was a little gross to watch the kids scoop up the fake poop.
After playing the in the ark indoors, we went outside for an archaeological dig. I don't think archaeologist dig barefoot, but Milo managed it.
