Museum of the Rockies

There is no denying that one of the kids' favorite places to go is the Museum of the Rockies.  At first Billy loved the dinosaurs, but now he's the expert on pretty much everything there.  Alexa is fascinated with the dinosaurs.  She loves them!  Now it is even better!  They recently opened a mini-Yellowstone children's center.  Today we went to their Tours for Tots to learn about the animals of Yellowstone (already the kids' third trip in a couple of months).  Billy was so excited to share all of his knowledge of Yellowstone-it was hard to keep him quiet. They got to make recycled animal masks like the display animals made from recycled objects.  Alexa spent most of the time whining, but Billy wanted to do her a "big favor" and made her mask for her.  He also sang to her while we were shopping to calm her down, and shared his apples with her in the car.  He'd do anything for his sister!

There were some pretty exciting new exhibits at the museum today, too.  They are currently housing the Morrill Act, which created land-grant colleges.  They also changed their dinosaur room to reflect a new discovery of Jack Horner and Mark Goodwin (paleontologists at MOR) that the torosaurus is actually an adult triceratops, rather than another species!  There were scientists working on a triceratops fossil, too.  Makes you wonder if this is what they were working on?! While neither Billy or Alexa really understand any of this, it is neat that they get to be in the middle of such neat history!