I’m a Beaver!

We went to the local science museum again recently. They have a neat area that’s all about beavers and their natural habitat and how humans are affecting it. Of course, for now we concentrate on the animals and feel the pelt and tail and look at the display of a beaver standing outside it’s den with a stick in it’s mouth. Our visits to this area are usually not very long even with the kiddos playing with the hands-on things there.

This time, however, we spent a lot of time there. Cutie Pie, in his 4 yr old wisdom, wanted to educate Sweet Pea on being a beaver. They dressed up in the costumes there, hood and all – very cute! Cutie Pie had me calling him Mr. Beaver and gnawed a seat for me out of a log that happened to be there (pretend, of course!) then proceeded to tell us all about his home. Sweet Pea was fascinated with the sticks intertwined above us, seemingly a real beaver’s den.

We also spent a lot of time in the puppet area playing with all the animals you’d find in this particular habitat: a turtle, fox, frog, deer, raccoon and beaver. Cutie Pie seemed to know exactly what beavers eat, how they make their dens, that they live in families and have the same ‘wife’ for life! I hadn’t realized how much he’s been learning on our visits there! It seems like whenever I ask Cutie Pie about what he’s learned, even in an open-ended way, he’s on to me, but when I least expect it I discover what’s in his brain!

I love taking my boys to the Rochester Museum and Science Center! It seems like every time we go they learn something new, reveal to me they know something I didn’t know they knew, or spend a great deal of time doing something I didn’t know they were interested in! Awesome!