... liz and i took the kids to farmington to visit the university's "lots of little treasures for making projects" center ... during the summer, on tuesdays and thursdays, i believe, from 3-5:00pm students and staff from the "upward bound" program help children to creatively express themselves ... while we were there a group was making their own self-designed robots using the materials at hand ... our guys decided that "shopping" was more than enough of an experience ...
... each bin/pile/box is price labeled ... 2-10¢ is a typical cost for a single item ... dan kept track of all his own purchases ...
... sisters ...
... walker did a great job of filling his shopping bag ...
... dan was equally fascinated with every single item ...
... family shopping network ...
... "i can take this home and make lots of loud drumming noise" ... i smiled, of course, since it's not going to be in my house ...
... "how can i get the best deal for my money" ... one of the most effective ways to teach math ...
... megan, it seems, wasn't going to let any attribute of an object go unexamined ...
... i noticed liz's "omg, i'm not sure about that" face ...
... walker had found the world's biggest knitting needle, and was walking around with it humming the star wars death theme ...
... between being told that if he took it home he couldn't stick anyone with it and learning that it was "so expensive he wouldn't be able to get an ice cream later," he decided to leave it behind ...
... [whew, dodged a liability bullet there] ...
... the "cool stuff store" at the university of maine in farmington is a great place for an outing with kids ...
... after we visited the historic giffords ice cream stand ... i mean, after all, you're supposed to properly educated children, right ... ??? ...