Comments: Museum Evening with the Turners
December 9, 2007 09:21:58 AM posted by Grandma Cindy Hey Abby and Zoe you are some calm girls. the museum sounds like a lot of fun. maybe we can go there next time I come out.
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December 7th 2007
Museum Evening with the Turners
I took Abby and Zoë to Rumble Tumble this afternoon to have some variety of play before Leann and Dakota (and Quinn) came over for dinner. We had been there for about an hour, when Dakota arrived around 4:30. At 5:00 p.m. the three girls helped Leann clean up and then we all headed back to our house. Leann brought pasta sauce and meatballs that she'd saved in the freezer from a caterer used for her brother's wedding. When we got home Chris had the water boiling and garlic bread thawed for me so all I had to do was get some pasta cooking, the bread in the oven, and the sauce and meatballs heated up. Abby and Zoë scarfed down their (full) bowls, with no sauce - We let them get away with no sauce since Dakota wasn't having any - and all three girls were done in no time to get back to playing with the toys. Although Zoë did stick around the table to try and continuously offer things to Quinn, who she saw Leann giving little bits of noodle to. She ended up succeeding in giving him some garlic toast, as Leann said that would be alright.
After we were all done dinner, we headed over to the Children's Museum for their FREE family fun night. The most interesting part (for me anyway) was when I had all of the girls go into the "play it cool" room, a two-player biofeedback game with a built-in electroencephalograph (EEG) machine. Each player wears an electrode headband which monitors alpha and theta brainwaves, the brainwaves of relaxation. The player who can become the most relaxed wins the game. There's a table with a narrow plexiglass dome running the length of it, with a small ball inside, the ball starts in the middle and moves away from the more relaxed person. Chairs are at either end, where the headbands are at. First Dakota and Zoë went. The ball didn't even inch towards Zoë, it went right to Dakota, who was really really excited to see all of the museum. Next, Dakota and Abby went. The ball wavered towards Abby for a moment, but then went to Dakota again. When it was time for Abby and Zoë to go against each other, the ball kept going back and forth evenly between them for a long time. It finally ended up landing on Zoë's side. After doing some watercolor painting and checking out all of the stations, we were ready to go. We said good-bye to our friends at their car and went inside to get ready for bed.
Abby @ 3 years, 11 months, 24 days
Zoë @ 3 years, 11 months, 24 days
Enzo expected in 9 months, 16 days
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