chicago '08

my nieces were here this week. we had a wonderfully exhausting time. I brought all of my toys home from work, and our house was one giant playroom. yesterday we took them to a children's ecological museum. we especially enjoyed the raptor rehabilitation program. we also took them (and their parents) to yale's peabody museum, a natural history museum. I spent a lot of time trying to explain pre-homo sapien hominids to Lilly, who is 4 and a half. I wasn't sure she quite got it. the next day she was telling one of my friends about what she had seen in new haven, and she referred to "the dead people museum 'cuz first there were dinosaurs, then different weird people, and then the real people like me."

while our guests were here, the resident Mr. Wizard conducted a series of science demonstrations.



they left this morning, and the house seems very quite without them.