Stacer Days: The rest of August...

One of those not-as-hot mornings in August the boys and I had a picnic breakfast at Rivery Park and then we went on a brief hike.

Classic.

Also pretty classic.

They are finally to the point where a see-saw is somewhat balanced and more fun.

We went to the Meacham's one day for lunch and to play in their fun water slides...

Good looking bunch of kids!

Story time with Aaron.

And we can't forget sweet baby James.

That night Aaron lost his first tooth!

A couple of random photos we sent to Daddy while he was at work...

Adam wanted to show him he finished a "hard" puzzle on the ipad.

...and Aaron was reading us a Serendipity book.

On August 25th we had some errands to run in Austin so we dropped by the Texas State History Museum and wandered around for a bit and saw an IMAX movie.

Adam was really excited about this giant star.

Zoomed in so you can see the "Adam pose."

Disclaimer: it's a really pretty and interesting museum but the lighting is strange, which makes it quite difficult to document, especially when using an iphone :)

In the wild-west section they had a little movie theater with a documentary about how Hollywood westerns and real life didn't always go hand in hand. Since Grandpa likes "westerns," they like westerns. Or at least for a couple of minutes.

A discussion about cast iron pots.

A discussion about a hand held grind stone. Adam was happy-dancing because he correctly answered one of Daddy's questions.

This one is for Uncle Matt.

The current exhibit was a whole wing about the year 1968. It was very bright and interesting.

There were several rooms that looked like this...

It covered civil rights, Vietnam, the moon landing, pop culture. We didn't have much time to go in depth, but there was certainly a lot to see.

The boys liked the full sized Huey.

This was the average American living room where you would have watched the news on the war. They had a similar living room exhibit where we watched the full news clip of the landing on the moon. It was like we were in the middle of that scene at the beginning of "Apollo 13." I wasn't around at the time, but it all seemed very authentic.

The 1968 Exhibit has already closed down but we saw a preview of the next exhibit and it looks absolutely awesome. It is called La Belle, and it's a reconstruction of one of Robert de La Salle's ships that wrecked near present day Matagorda Bay. They've fully excavated and reconstructed it and as far as I could understand, there will be a ship (or at least a portion of it) inside the museum. Our boys will go nuts.