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Ana was such a darling today.
Mar. 31st, 2006 09:45 pm
Well. Most of today, anyway.
She sat on the toilet with no fuss, every time I asked. Well, no fuss once we got into the bathroom.
Other than her incessant playing-with-doors. Honestly, if she unlocks the door on me one more time, I'm going to scream. Girl has no concept of privacy.
And this morning, so cute. She was waiting for the bus with me, leaning over me to see her sister - and she just passes her bear over. I asked her why, out of curiosity, she'd lent one of her favorite bears to her sister. The simple answer she gave, with no thought in advance? "Cuz she wants to play with it!"
So sweet. It's all the honey she sneaks. Oh, we think she doesn't get away with it, but clearly she does - how else did she get to be so sweet?
Kidz Cook today was Manicotti. We do Kidz Cook at the museum every Friday. The kids (kidz?) take turns adding an ingredient, stirring the pot, rolling out dough, whatever - and then they get to have a small taste of whatever was made. It's a nice way to end the week, y'know? Last week was (fresh) Linguini, preceeded by Kuchen. Next week is (a stretch, really) Nosh in the Ballpark. Anybody with kids in the NYC area, the program is for kidz (kids?) up to age 10 or so. It's really a good, solid museum, in a beautiful park. You may wish to plan a visit for a Friday in the summer.
I love this museum, I really do. The other two ACM museums in the city are nice enough, and better funded - but I find them all too slick and overstimulating. Even the BCM, the trip isn't that much longer to get there than to the SICM, but I can't bring myself to go more than once a week. And the CMOM has an insane admission fee for a place that's just chock full of corporate sponsership. If you are that into Dora, be sure to visit their Dora-themed exhibit, but I find that sort of thing tacky in museums. (They do have a very cool water area, though - about the only place in the museum that really stands out in my mind as a good reason to visit the cafeteria-free place.)
Only problem with the SICM is that their funding isn't as great as it could be. They have a lot of great programs, and I love all their exhibits, but nearly all of their exhibits need some fixing up - from holes in fireman jackets to grime on the climbing wall, to missing toys in the sea-themed shapesorter.
It's like I told Jenn when we were discussing museum memberships. A membership to the BCM seems to be cheaper, and it'd get us into the SICM just as well - but I like the SICM more, and I want to support them.
So if you're in the area any time this year, and you have kids, or you can obtain kids, go check it out. It's just a short trip across the bay, and you won't regret it.
(Just don't go during a non-summer school holiday if you can help it. That's craziness.)
She sat on the toilet with no fuss, every time I asked. Well, no fuss once we got into the bathroom.
Other than her incessant playing-with-doors. Honestly, if she unlocks the door on me one more time, I'm going to scream. Girl has no concept of privacy.
And this morning, so cute. She was waiting for the bus with me, leaning over me to see her sister - and she just passes her bear over. I asked her why, out of curiosity, she'd lent one of her favorite bears to her sister. The simple answer she gave, with no thought in advance? "Cuz she wants to play with it!"
So sweet. It's all the honey she sneaks. Oh, we think she doesn't get away with it, but clearly she does - how else did she get to be so sweet?
Kidz Cook today was Manicotti. We do Kidz Cook at the museum every Friday. The kids (kidz?) take turns adding an ingredient, stirring the pot, rolling out dough, whatever - and then they get to have a small taste of whatever was made. It's a nice way to end the week, y'know? Last week was (fresh) Linguini, preceeded by Kuchen. Next week is (a stretch, really) Nosh in the Ballpark. Anybody with kids in the NYC area, the program is for kidz (kids?) up to age 10 or so. It's really a good, solid museum, in a beautiful park. You may wish to plan a visit for a Friday in the summer.
I love this museum, I really do. The other two ACM museums in the city are nice enough, and better funded - but I find them all too slick and overstimulating. Even the BCM, the trip isn't that much longer to get there than to the SICM, but I can't bring myself to go more than once a week. And the CMOM has an insane admission fee for a place that's just chock full of corporate sponsership. If you are that into Dora, be sure to visit their Dora-themed exhibit, but I find that sort of thing tacky in museums. (They do have a very cool water area, though - about the only place in the museum that really stands out in my mind as a good reason to visit the cafeteria-free place.)
Only problem with the SICM is that their funding isn't as great as it could be. They have a lot of great programs, and I love all their exhibits, but nearly all of their exhibits need some fixing up - from holes in fireman jackets to grime on the climbing wall, to missing toys in the sea-themed shapesorter.
It's like I told Jenn when we were discussing museum memberships. A membership to the BCM seems to be cheaper, and it'd get us into the SICM just as well - but I like the SICM more, and I want to support them.
So if you're in the area any time this year, and you have kids, or you can obtain kids, go check it out. It's just a short trip across the bay, and you won't regret it.
(Just don't go during a non-summer school holiday if you can help it. That's craziness.)
