Wonder Lab for Your Birfday

Dear Peep, 
A couple of days before your birthday Daddy and I took you to "First Friday's" at Wonder Lab, an interactive science playroom for kids.   The first Friday of each month the cost is half price.  You know how we love a fun bargain!  There are tons of activities there that appeal to many different ages.  This first visit you were getting your feet wet, literally and figuratively.  You seemed to enjoy the water table where you can use pipe to redirect the flow of water.  Despite wearing a smock to keep you dry you were soaked!  You splashed around and watched intently the big toilet like spinning tube that sucks balls from the top and shoots them back out the bottom near your hands.  Daddy and I commented on how you must wonder why all of the sudden we are allowing you to play in the toilet.  

 Rube Goldberg machines are your favorite and you sat and followed the balls around the contraption with your quick eyes.  

Daddy and I had fun playing with the vacuum tubes where you put in scarfs and change the 
flow of air to make them shoot around the tubes and back out again.  You tried to stuff a scarf in but the air blowing freaked you out a little.  You did giggle at the fun mirrors that stretched your head to three feet tall while squashing your body to one.  We got a kick out of pressing your body into the panel of small straws to eke out an impression of your baby body.  It really captured your smile and belly nicely.  Daddy enjoyed showing you the bubble room.  

There you pressed a panel of buttons to puff air into different fluids to show viscosity.  Yeah you didn't get it yet, but you loved pressing the buttons and watching the bubble move up the tube.  

Then Daddy held soap bubbles for you full of smoke.  You marveled at them when they popped.  Upstairs Daddy showed you the aquarium where you said, "FISH!" for the first time, several times.  Then Mommy made a really dumb decision to sit you in the archaeology activity.  The activity's intent is to have you use a little brush to swipe away pebbles in order to discover fossils hidden underneath...your interpretation was to grab a handful of the pebbles and stuff them in your mouth as fast as possible.  Unfortunately, when I tried to sweep them out of your mouth those 11 razor sharp teeth clamped down on my index finger.  Mommy had to use the special training (I made fun of) from work to break you loose... (you rub underneath the nose with your other hand and it triggers some weird sensation that makes a kid stop biting.)  You aren't a biter but like everything else you've done in the last year you gave it nothing but your best .  A few more pounds of applied pressure and Mommy would have been bleeding.  Mommy passed you to Daddy and took a short time out after that.  

Then we regrouped and spied on a turtle (you said turtle!) and a snake.  You ran around a little bit from thing to thing.  We figured out that we were tired and hungry and decided to get home.  It was a lot of fun seeing you make discoveries.  We can't wait to take you back as you get older.
Love, Mommy