Outside at the museum. Plus: Mommy's idea of hell

We had a busy day today. In the morning, I woke Mommy and Daddy up early (6 am!) to get started on the day. When the stores opened, we went to the grocery store because they were tripling coupons! Woo! Then we got back in the car and drove to the NC Museum of Life and Science again. We met my friend Ike and his mommy and daddy.

Today it was only in the upper 80s, not the upper 90s like last time I went to the museum, so we did the outside stuff that I didn't get a chance to see before. They had a bunch of stuff you could bang, like drums and stuff. Ike can walk around all by himself, so he could bang on the drums.


Here's Daddy and Ike's daddy trying to figure out what this thing is.


You're suppossed to put your ear up to the pipes and you can hear stuff!

Daddy or Mommy pushed me in my stroller sometimes, and other times they carried me. Here's a picture of Daddy carrying me on his shoulders, which is my favorite way to travel!


Then we went into the butterfly house. They had lots of butterflies flying around and a lot of neat flowers and plants. Here's Daddy showing me one.


There were a bunch of butterflies getting ready to hatch!


When we got out of the butterfly house, it was time to ride the train!! It was fun. It went pretty fast and was all jiggly which I like.


I was pretty tired by this point (Mommy is trying to stick to the 1 nap schedule the daycare has me on during the week, but sometimes its a little touch-and-go as we get closer to noon!) so I was totally grumpypantsing while we were waiting to get going. Mommy was trying to keep me entertained by giving me a toy, but I threw it over the side of the train. We had to wait until the train ride was over to get it back. After that we went home. I told you I was tired! I took a nap in my new car seat (Daddy's car version) and then continued the nap in my crib at home.




Okay, now to Mommy's hell. Mommy had heard from Ike's dad that there was a room that had bugs in it. Mommy HAAAAAAATES bugs. Hates hates hates them. Ike's daddy warned Mommy not to go into this room, but she decided to give it a try. There were a ton of huge, enormous, hideous bugs in little glass cages. Here's Ike looking at a cage of bugs (actually, this one might have frogs in it, come to think of it, but it was in the bug room).


There was an area (not even a cage or anything, just an open area!) that had HUGE SPIDERS that were BUILDING HUGE WEBS and they were RIGHT OUT IN THE OPEN where they could just crawl onto you if they wanted to!! Mommy practically hyperventilated and died.

One of the hideous cages of bugs was filled with Madagascar hissing cockroaches.


Yes, Mommy took that picture too, but she assures me that she was just about ready to run out of the room. You won't believe this, but in 4th grade Mommy says her class pet was a cockroach just like this that they had gotten from the Johnson Wax testing facility. His name was Raid and Mommy and G-G babysat him over Christmas break or something. And he ate dog food and Grape Nuts.