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Porter and Dallin getting ready to watch the 3D dinosaur movie


Jumping on the "moon" at the planetarium and playing with the wind tunnel at the museum


Today I took Porter and Dallin to the museum and then to the IMAX movie at the Planetarium. We went to the museum with cousin Jack, Aunt Megan, and Grandma. We went to the Planetarium by ourselves. At the museum, we went to one of the little classes that they have where they read the kids a book and then do an activity. In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, we read "Green Eggs and Ham" (which is the same book I read Dallin last night for the same reason. Porter got "To Think that I Saw that on Mulberry Street" and "Gertrude McFuzz"). After that, they made their own Green Eggs and Ham. Dallin wouldn't eat any of his and Porter would only eat ham. They both hate eggs lately. The other day, they had eggs for breakfast at daycare and Porter told me that they couldn't eat them because they are disgusting. Luckily, Grandma and Jack were there to eat the leftovers.
At the planetarium, we saw a 3D dinosaur movie. I think it was a bad choice. Porter thought it was too loud and kept his ears covered for most of it. They were both pretty scared. Porter had to sit on my lap and kept trying to scoot himself further back. He did keep asking where the Terradons were though, so at least he pays attention to the books we have read about dinosaurs. Dallin made me hold his hand the whole time. A boy down the row from us kept screaming. Last time, we went to an under-the-sea movie. That one wasn't as scary. Porter was pretty funny. He kept trying to touch the fish and couldn't figure out why he couldn't feel them. He did get nervous at parts. When the shark came on, Porter kept saying, "I am not going to like this, I am not going to like this" and Dallin kept saying "shark," louder and louder until he was yelling it. Luckily, the shark didn't do anything scary and his part was over quickly. After the ocean one, Porter said that it was a very good movie and we should see it again. He didn't have similar feelings about the dinosaur one.

Speaking of dinosaurs, Porter has been wondering what happened to them. Because I am not quite sure of the reasons why they died out, I just tell him that Heavenly Father didn't want them on the earth any more. Porter has also been concerned about monsters. Joe told him that they are all dead though. From these two bits of information, Porter has formulated a story on what happened. He believes that the dinosaurs were put on the earth to eat the monsters. Once the monsters were all eaten, Heavenly Father didn't need the dinosaurs anymore and took them off the earth. There is a spot on I-15, right by the exit to I-80 Eastbound where there were a bunch of those huge inflatable characters for some reason. There was a gorrila, an eagle and something else. Porter decided that those were like monuments or something to the fight because they marked where all the monsters had been eaten. I am not really sure why, but Porter is certain that all the monsters were eaten right under the overpass by the dinosaurs.