On sunday morning I rang up a couple of friends with children and organize a day out at the National History Museum. I was so excited to show M. the dinosaurs; recently she keeps on reading the same book about a funny witch and her cat having an adventure with dinosaurs ("Meg's egg" by Pienkowski). In the book a dinosaur wants to eat Meg (the witch) and her friends so she makes a spell and all the dinosaurs become really tiny. The ferocious dinosaur opens its jaws and "snap". She likes the book so much that she wanted to go to sleep with it on saturday evening, so in the morning I didn't have choice but to take her to see the real dinosaurs!
I must warn you not to go to museums on week-ends, especially with small children, it will stress you out! The museum was packed, we even had to queue to enter, it was quick though, but then we had to queue to hung the coats and later to have a coffee. There was a 20 minutes queue even to see the dinosaurs section, so we had to skip that attraction but luckily we could see those dinosaurs exposed in the central hall which were in a sufficient number to please our little ones. M. enjoyed looking at all these dinosaurs and their different shapes, from the very tall one to the one that looks like a giant turtle. We also visited the apes, the bugs and the birds areas which were all very fascinating for the children.
Of course M. kept on running off to take a better look to something we had already seen, or just to see something else. That part wasn't enjoyable at all because with all those people I could have lost sign of M. very easy, that's why next time we will come back on a week-day and we will certainly go back because M. enjoyed this experience very much.
A part from "Meg's egg" I've noticed that M. got a bit bored of all the other books in her home library. When I read she keeps on turning the pages very quickly, then she turns them back, she starts again from the beginning to then skip through the pages and get to the end. I thought that it would be better to make a trip to the local library, a dingy, old, not very exciting place, it would do with a bit of paint and so furnishing...anyway it got a good selection of books for children. We went this morning after the toddler group in a children's centre and we brought home 15 books of any sort. On our way we also stopped in a charity shop where I could by 3 books in good condition for the price of what would be a brand new one (3.70 for 3 books is excellent I think). These charity shops are a real hidden treasure for children books and toys: good for your wallet and good to do some good too!
M. was so curious to read all the books she forgot about her lunch. She especially liked the story of "little red ridding hood " and the two books I got from the library in the series "Pippo" by Oxenbury.
When she woke up from her nap we kept on reading and reading again all the books.
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