We went to the BCM today...

[conuly]

Ana got to pet a turtle (she was really excited about this. Jenn asked her about it later, and Ana went into this enthusiastic description of how "the legs, and these legs, and these feet, and the tail, and it moved, the tail moved!!!!!!!" while making clever hand motions to illustrate the point) and make a model turtle.

It's like the Jack-o-Lanterns all over again. Every other kid got to go home with a green-colored "turtle" that looked like, well, a turtle. Kinda.

Ana ended up with the crumpled monstrosity covered in pink and brown and orange and blue and whatnot, and the eyes all crooked. I don't know what it looks like, but it's sure not a turtle.

But she was also the one who was willing to sit there far longer than any other child was, who got to put the glue on by herself and choose her own colors. If I had to guess, I'd say she had more fun than they did. But I'd also say I'm self-righteous, so who knows?

I do feel slightly bad comparing all the finished products, though. I just have to keep reminding myself that I have better things to do than to enforce conformity. *nodnodnod* (Isn't that a delightful way of spinning "and by the way, even if I didn't think it was silly, I'm far too lazy to give her that kind of 'help'"?)

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Memories

[old-cutter-john.livejournal.com]

Brooklyn Children's Museum? Is that still on St. Marks Place? I used to spend hours there when I was about eight, playing a tic-tac-toe game that was built out of electric relays, back before transistors were invented. I figured out how to cheat by hitting a second button before the relays could fully react to my having pushed the first one. I won a lot of games that way, at least according to the appearance of the board, but since beating the machine was impossible, it wasn't programmed to recognize when that had happened.

Re: Memories

[conuly]

I don't know what street it is - we take the 3 down to Kingston.

Memories

[old-cutter-john.livejournal.com]

Brooklyn Children's Museum? Is that still on St. Marks Place? I used to spend hours there when I was about eight, playing a tic-tac-toe game that was built out of electric relays, back before transistors were invented. I figured out how to cheat by hitting a second button before the relays could fully react to my having pushed the first one. I won a lot of games that way, at least according to the appearance of the board, but since beating the machine was impossible, it wasn't programmed to recognize when that had happened.

Re: Memories

[conuly]

I don't know what street it is - we take the 3 down to Kingston.