field trip!

My mother was in town yesterday, so we met her at the train station for lunch, then went to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  They have a new oceans exhibit that we enjoyed, as well as the IMAX movie, "Deep Sea 3D" that was a lot of fun.  This all worked out quite well since we're learning about sea creatures right now, and my mom's kind of an ocean nut these days.  

I can't remember the name of it, but these are the teeth from the ancestor of the great white shark.

L was excited to find this "sword" fish skeleton (he loves swords!).

The kids are trying to pose like the monkey skeleton.  They like monkeys.

Playing on the mall.

All in all it was a good field trip.  I think that maybe their interest in sea life was piqued, and we're excited to find some stickers of the animals we're learning about to add to our habitat posters.  They, of course, loved seeing "Didi" too.  But I'm feeling kind of bad because towards the end of our trip, the baby was getting very cranky due to no naptime, and the kids were starting to whine a bit, and I got frustrated with them.  Which I regret.  Later in the evening, I asked Z if she had a good time, to which she replied "Yes" at first, but then corrected herself and said that I was rushed and angry the whole time.  I apologized, and I'm hoping that I'll relax a bit more in the future.  But today we're having a peaceful day at home (fingers crossed!).