Super Bowl Sunday 2009

Super Bowl Sunday got off to an early start when Steve left the house at 6 am to board a plane to CA for work. I was so completely jet lagged from my trip I could barely keep my eyes open with Ethan in the morning! Of course we were up at 6 too. By 8 I could barely stand it anymore and knew I needed to get out of the house. I didn't even care where we went but I decided to take E to the Museum of Science. It sounds ambitious, and I guess it was, but as a Raytheon employee I get in for free so it was easy in that respect. I wasn't sure about taking him into Boston wearing his Steelers shirt on Super Bowl Sunday but we only got 2 comments...one from a despondent Eagles fan and the other from a fellow Steelers fan.

On the way in you pass a window into the dinosaur exhibit and there's a life size T-Rex. Guess where we had to go first...E couldn't wait to see the dinosaurs! Here he is posing with a triceratops.



The room next door was full of stations with buttons. We had to run around climbing up on all of the little chairs to press the button. I'd like to say that my 2 year old was interested in learning about electron-scanning microscopes or even the insects it was magnifying, but it was all about the buttons.



His daddy would have been so proud...E loved looking at the solar powered cars.



There's a woman on the "phone" telling him about finding fossils in Appalachia or something like that. I don't think he heard a word.



He was crawling all over this bench! It was Steelers blue after all.



Then we hit the motherload of all button boards. Each button lit up a spot on the map and E went straight for it. He stayed there for a good long time pushing button after button after button.



Then we hit the discovery room and learned about bees.







And then listened to the ocean in the conch shell.



This is not his best rendition, but Ethan does a great Steelers cheer. He was more interested in his hot chocolate then performing for me, but you get the idea.



Steve arrived in Burbank a few minutes late for the game. He called me wondering what happened in the first quarter. They had scored a touchdown when he was in the car but when he got to the bar they only had 3 points! You just can't miss a minute. Needless to say he was so excited for his team to win the big game. If only he had someone to share it with!