Add some zap to your day

Feel like you could use a zap this morning? Glad to oblige.

The photo is from the Louisiana Children's Museum in New Orleans. We took our grandkids there awhile back and found out it had things to entertain kids of all ages. (well, my age for sure -- although, its web site only has things like special toddlers days: I didn't see any special grandpa days. Tis a shame).


-- steve buser

Big bust theory formed

The Louisiana Childrens Museum is a place of wonderment for little ones, like our granddaughter, Sophie, 18 months. She encounters a big bubble here -- only about 1/4 of it is in the picture. Can you imagine what is going through her mind. By the way, the paint on her face? She did the face painting thing and magically transformed herself into a bunny rabbit.

So now you know what it looks like when a bunny rabbit runs head on into a big bubble.

Get the message?

Do you believe that children have a secret language that they use to tell adults what they want? I am trying to figure out exactly what it is that our granddaughter, Sophie, is trying to say here. She passed up the lobster, the crabs, the steaks, the ice cream, and the frozen food at the Louisiana Children's Museum grocery store and started clearing out the vegetable section.

You heard me. She cleared it out. They weren't having a sale on veggies, so that couldn't be it. Maybe she was just attracted by the color. Or maybe by the grab-able sizes.

Notice the bandanged foot. Maybe she was trying to tell us veggies will help make it heal.

I don't know what the message was. I guess adults are just slow to understand what kids are trying to tell us.

-- steve buser

Bubbly

Our niece Paige was having a lot of fun making giant soap bubbles on our recent trip to the New Orleans Childrens Museum in the Warehouse District of the city. If your imagination (young and old) wasn't running wild in this place, then you don't have one.

Check it out.

This was the grocery store at the New Orleans Children's Museum where we spent Saturday. The kids enjoyed picking food off the shelf (empty but real containers) and bringing it up to the register where other kids checked it out. Our neice Rebekah is the check out lady here, trying to collect the $300 bill from here sister Sarah -- Sarah just ran over to her nanny's purse and pulled out the check book.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. It also gives an insight into the practices of her mentor (Nanny). Go figure.

-- Steve Buser

Sparking the imagination

We were at the New Orleans Children's Museum with out nieces and nephews yesterday. Of course this kid (me) was draw to the plasma globe -- you know that ones that shoot sparks inside of a globe. When you put your hand on the globe, the sparks shoot toward it. I kept coming back several times shooting a couple dozen shots, trying to get the perfect photo.

-- steve buser