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The First Day of Pre-K

The weather is still hot, but the fall school year is here!  Tuesday was Joseph's official first day of Pre-K.  He attended "camp" there all summer so to him it's just another day at the office, but this mommy knew that in real-time I only have one more year with him at home with me.  It's bittersweet.    

This picture is me humoring Joseph.  He was really excited to take a photo with his monkeys, but I wanted one with just his sign and smile so - one for him, one for me. 

And in case you are wondering, that is his fan from the City of Plano Fire Department Birthday Celebration because it was hot hot hot and they had these to cool us off.  He thinks if he is going to be a fireman he needs to have his fireman fan.   

But who am I kidding, the photo where he insists on having his beloved monkeys and his impromptu props is way more his style.  Why would I want such a boring and normal photo anyway?!

Speaking of boring and normal...I decided to spice things up a bit and apparently forgot Alaina's car seat in Josh's truck, so I didn't have her car seat to take Joseph to school.  It was pretty disappointing.  He missed his first day but sure-as-heck made it for the second!  

Laniey-poo was dying to get in on the action.

I hope to do First Day of School signs with both of them and watch to see how their "When I grow up..." statement changes.  When I was younger I wanted to be an artist and an acrobat and fly on the trapeze!  Mine changed quite a bit....  :) 

The NASA Museum

After the tram tour we headed back to the Visitors Center for some Space Dots Ice Cream of the Future...of course...and to finish the museum.  It was amazing.  These exhibits surrounded you as you walked through and they had such detailed and realistic panoramas that you felt like you were in outer space or on the moon, or in an actual NASA lab. 

The guys checking out the Space Lab.

Josh read that NASA collaborated with Disney to design the Visitor's Center/Museum.  It certainly shows like a movie set or theme park and held all of our attention and was interesting and educational to boot! 

Watch out below! This guy is working on the Space Station. 

They had an incredible exhibit of the Space Lab and how the astronauts lived in it.  Of course the photos don't quite express how realisitc it is, but everything was life sized and 3-D.

 

This fella is taking a space shower...no peeking!

LOVED this portion of the exhibit.  The ceiling was filled with thousands of stars and it was really breathtaking!  Even though it was simulated night-time, it felt real.

The moon rover.

We got to check out some cool moon rocks.  I was a little disappointed though - they looked like normal rocks.  Ha!  I was hoping for some glowing (or sparkly would have been fine too....) far-out looking specimens, maybe even alien fossils or something?!?!

But the coolest part was that there was one (heavily guarded) that we could touch!  We are all now blessed with the good luck from rubbing the moon rock!

Even Sweet Alaina got to touch the moon rock.  Such a cool "first" for such a little hand!

 

We checked out a few last artifacts of the space program before heading to Uncle Ray's for the night.  It was bittersweet to think of the of NASA retiring the shuttles.

  

But, I guess the future is calling and something bigger and better will come of this historic, monumental program.