The Hatcher Family: MOSH

I took Addison and Emma to the Museum of Science and History here in Jacksonville this week after they got over their Strep throat. We had been cooped up in the house for several days and I really needed to get them out to play. Iwant to buy an annual pass to this place because I have never seen them more excited! I think they might be a little nerdy like their mom and dad because they were so into learning and exploring all the exhibits. Addison was a little bit scared of the human body exhibit and the dinosaurs. Emma absolutely loved every single thing she saw and was able to touch (and the things she was not allowed to touch since I had to fetch her from underneath railings and blocked off areas several times). They even sat through a 30 min. planetarium show. By far the planetarium and the native reptile and birds exhibit was their favorite. I didn’t get any pictures in the planetarium because cameras had to be turned off. It was funny because they’re so small they didn’t fit in the reclining seats. The seats folded like movie theatre seats and their little legs just pointed straight in the air. Of course Emma made this into a game and kept pushing her legs up and down. Both ended up in my lap. When the planetarium show was over Emma kept saying, “Mommy, we go back to that dark room?” Later she told Brian, “Daddy, I want to take you to that dark room. It will be so fun!” Addison wanted to pick up all the snakes, lizards, and frogs she found in the reptile room. (Side note: This girl has a serious passion for catching frogs. Emma will catch them too, but Addison is borderline obsessive about this activity. We have so many small frogs that have hatched from the pond behind our house. So there are tons for her to play with each day.) Back to the museum, I was so happy to take the girls without the stroller and feel pretty confident they were not going to run from me. It makes things so much easier to not have to lug that big stroller around! We will definitely go back to the MOSH!