We went to the Milwaukee Public Museum this morning-- it was Connor's first time there. He LOVED it. There were a couple scary parts... the dark jungle, the huge dinosaurs, the butterfly room (he's not too fond of flying insect's--they freak him out) but he managed to overcome his fear and ended up really enjoying himself. I was pretty surprised that he even went into some of the more "intimidating" areas... he just kept saying "It's not real, it's pretend." What a big boy-- I'm so proud of him. A couple times, in the scarier areas, he'd take Nanna's hand and all was well after that. He especially liked seeing all the animals up close, even the bugs (the dead ones enclosed safely behind glass, that is. Ha). We heard a lot of "What's this?!?!?!" and "What's THAT?!?!" So much fun to see everything through new eyes. What a neat morning. : )
~ Deb
** click on the images to see them larger... the butterfly's are so neat close-up! **
In the butterfly room. Alas, there are no picture's of Connor with a butterfly. I consider it a success that we even got him to stay in the room, though! ; )
Nanna's friend that stayed on her pretty much the whole time we were in the room. : )
This one cracks me up.
BFF's? His expression is priceless...he's totally leary of the statue, for whatever reason. ; )
Pretending to be a butterfly...
... and flying. He's too cute.
He grabbed Nanna's hand in this dark area.
In an igloo.
No idea why he's standing like this. ; )
The pics turned out great, I didn' think they'd be so clear considering the lighting in there! The bear pics look like there's a real bear right behind him. Hope Connor liked the butterfly sucker, he was probably surprised that it was chewy. Was a fun time, you learn something new
every time you go there.