I enjoyed a special one on one day on Wednesday with my firstborn. Isn't it wonderful to have that time with one child and be all theirs? We didn't do anything extraordinary. A very chilly wet wander through the park, visit to the toy shop (not to buy anything, purely to look at Lego), sushi for lunch, stopping off at the library on the way home.
Dex talked non stop about space stuff. More specifically Space Lego. No, he calls it Little Lego - just to be sure we're not talking about that toddler Duplo stuff. He has been carrying around a Lego instruction booklet (for his space shuttle) for weeks, goes to bed with it under his pillow - where only his most precious things go. For a few weeks now he's been talking endlessly, ENDLESSLY, about how he built his space shuttle all by himself and the space centre that he hopes to acquire one day in the not too distant future.
He lay down in the toy store and studied boxes of Lego for 40 minutes (the fire station got a look in but at least 35 mins of that time was spent gazing at the space centre)! After such close studying of the pictures on the box he told me he has already decided the order in which he will assemble the parts, explaining carefully how he will stop after each part to play with it before starting on the next. Poor kid, we're not ones for going out and buying every toy our children obsess after but it's hard not to think of an excuse to get him this - his 6th birthday seems so far away! In the past few weeks we've watched, again, his DVD's Hubble - 15 Years Of Discovery and Spaceflight. Computer time is usually spent playing games and watching short video's on NASA kids. And of course, he can not get enough of the space section at the Powerhouse Museum, which we visit often.
Yesterday we made another visit to the Powerhouse museum, because really how could we stay away from the place after a day spent talking obsessively about space themed little Lego and the evening spent looking at his chosen library books which were of course all about space! Dexter wore his astronaut suit as usual. I was sure I blogged about one visit we made to the museum last year when Dexter was aghast at having a staff member say he must be Buzz Lightyear when he was of course actually pretending to be Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission! But for the life of me I can not find the post. Oh well. He has had the suit since his 3rd birthday and it has seen a lot of wearing, so much that I've had to in fact make repairs to it several times.
We took my 4 yr. old nephew with us, who had never been to the PHM. Boy oh boy was Dexter overjoyed. He was so excited to show and explain everything to his cousin, I think the poor kid was overwhelmed!
Life size model of the Shuttle's nose.
Life size replica of one of the rooms inside the International Space Station.
And lastly - the Zero Gravity Simulator, in which we met another homeschooling family visiting Sydney from Canberra*! How about that?
*Because obviously they're not getting their museum fix in our nations capitol!
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