Science Center in the Summer

I attempted to host a playgroup at the North Shore Water Steps on Tuesday.  Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate, so I relocated the meetup to the Carnegie Science Center.  With most schools out and most summer day camps just starting, it was a pretty calm day at the museum.  We enjoyed taking our time through some of our favorite exhibits.  Here are a few glimpses of the fun the boys had (and I had fun getting them out of the house!).

Penn playing with fish and buoyancy in the submarine.

All 3 Melder big boys playing in the ball area.  (Koen is in the green, far right).

We had to visit the trains of course (note Koen pushing the stroller.  He LOVES to be in charge of pushing Jansen around).

Penn still talks about the last time he saw this robot sing, "Singing in the Rain."  So, of course, we had to get the robot to sing it for him again.  He loved it!

The Science Center staff was testing a new robot exhibit prototype.  Koen waited in line (with some encouragement to have patience to get something you really want).  He was so proud of himself.  He was able to figure out the controls and manipulate them to pick up one of the balls in the bin and drop it into one of the holes in the box.  I watched it and was so impressed.  He's a sharp one!  It was complicated and took a lot of finessing.  Nice work, Koen!

Jansen didn't really do much at the museum except hang with me and then fall asleep in the stroller.  He's such a good, roll-with-it-baby.  

After lunchtime with our friends, we split off to go to the UPMC SportsWorks attached to the museum.  The boys each got to choose one thing to do (well, Penn Rye just kind of did stuff around what his brothers chose because he's an awesome 3rd child and still young enough not to care).  Tav chose this jumping thing.  He was all serious and pretty proud of himself.

After the SportsWorks, we had to head home.  All in all, it was a really great visit.  So nice that the museum wasn't packed and we really needed this day out of the house after being quite home-bound since our return from Texas.