We’ve done stuff since our vacation to Utah, I promise. It’s all just stacking up, waiting for me to get to as I’ve been preparing our Primary Sacrament Meeting Program.
Samantha continues to want to help around the house. And now that Clara’s sitting, they can even be in the bath together. And every day when I’m making something (especially dinner) Samantha wants to help. This particular day she even donned her apron that Grandma Smith made her.
Stephen’s company had an employee from China (her “English” name was Echo) in the states for a few weeks and one night we offered to play host and take her somewhere fun. We decided on the Science Museum of Minnesota. I had heard good things about it, but hadn’t managed to get there in our 3 years of living here. Plus, my best friend from high school is in charge of installing one of the exhibits across the world (Science on a Sphere) and I hadn’t seen that yet.
Samantha enjoyed herself. She spent a long time working on this puzzle. I helped her for a bit, but I couldn’t quite get it right and it started driving me nuts. one day, I’ll figure it out.
Samantha, too interested in her puzzle to look at me
Once we got her away from the puzzle, Stephen introduced her to the ball “floating in the air”. He remembers it as a kid, and he tried to get it as far as he could before it would fall out of the stream of air. Samantha was jumping all over the place underneath it. A movie would have been hilarious.
Here’s one of Samantha favorite exhibits. The echo chamber. You could press a button and the microphone would have you be in an anechoic chamber, a bathroom, a ballroom, a regular living, etc… She, of course, loved the “ballroom” setting and was singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” so loud I could hear her inside the bathroom a good 20 yards away.
Body part exhibit, it just looks funny. 
Samantha’s other favorite exhibit was the newsroom. She loved seeing herself on TV.
And here on the evening news, Samantha and Stephen Smith.
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