Quotes

Today we went to the science museum with one of Mrs. H's old co-workers.  Yes, we found someone who would go with us, and Baby H did her gopher trick just like in the picture a few posts back.  While walking around the museum, we asked Baby H what she wanted to be when she grew up.  Since we were standing right outside the "spacerocketship", we assumed the answer would be and astronaut.  Instead it was a farmer.  That was odd.

"Sophie, what do you want to farm?"

"Robots!"

"Oh, I get it.  She's going to program nanobots and work on autonomous swarm applications.  That's cool!"

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A little while later, we went to watch "The Alps" at the science museum's Omni Theater.  I've been wanting to see this since it came out, and wasn't disappointed.  As you can imagine, it's mostly about the mountains, mainly the Eiger and the Matterhorn.  The plot revolves around a climber, John Harlin, who is climbing a route on which his father died in 1966.  As part of one of the opening scenes, the camera swoops in on a climber climbing ice.  When Baby H saw this, she said loudly, "Mommy, what IS that?"

"That's ice climbing.  Your uncle has done that."  Then she gave a quick explanation of what the crampons and ice axes were for.

"Mommy, I HAVE to do that!" she responded, loudly enough for people several seats away to hear her clearly.

To anyone that says that raising girls is different than raising boys, I would have to ask whether their idea of what girls do includes robot-farming and ice climbing.  Probably not.