All Boys at the Carnegie Science Center

Today we went to the Carnegie Science Center with my friend, Allison, and her two boys Josiah and Samuel. It was great we had high-energy plans today as Koen had plenty of energy to spend. Unfortunately, Tav is a little under the weather with a cold or allergies and a cough that is a result of whatever it is he's dealing with, but he was a trooper as usual and had a pretty good time keeping up.

Today was an exciting day for Koen as we finally ventured into the UPMC SportsWorks building as part of our experience. It is definitely still a little old for Koen, but he was intrigued by the new activities. Here he is on a skateboard...Tavin loved the hockey goal activity. It measures your reaction time. Don't tell Tav, but his reaction time is slow, but I was actually impressed at how he followed the lights and understood how to do the activity itself. A future goalie perhaps?Here's Koen being brave and trying the "You-Yo." The bunjie cord pulls you up off the ground. He loved it! He didn't want to try the trampoline though. There were big kids doing crazy turns, spins and flips and he thought it looked a little too scary this time.Perhaps his favorite thing was spinning around on the centrifugal force wheel. The simpler the better sometimes.After about a half our so in the SportsWorks we headed back into the main museum and got to the floor where Tavin and Samuel could enjoy more. Tavin did really well in here playing with the water table, the ball area and of course he found the dump truck, his favorite.Koen and Josiah mostly played hide and seek and chase and amazingly very quickly the time flew and it was time to head down for a visit to the trains and then outside for lunch. Yep, that's right. Outside! It was 68! The Science Center looks out over the point where the 3 rivers meet and there is a lot to watch...trains, the incline trolleys, construction at the point, ducks and geese in the river, activity on the submarine, barges and highway traffic on the bridges. Talk about a good spot for a bunch of boys to enjoy their lunch!After lunch we took a walk down to the submarine and the boys all enjoyed throwing rocks into the river. Tavin was so cute trying to do it too. His rocks sometimes went behind him, sometimes went only an inch in front of him, but he loved doing what everyone else was doing.Thanks to Allison, Josiah and Samuel for great company. It's fun hanging out with another mom with two energetic boys. Lots of camaraderie there!