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I guess someone has already absorbed a lot from where Mommy works …

While our Finnish and French friends were here, we went to Space Center Houston a couple of times. Well, Will went a couple of times. I went once since it was a Saturday when the Frenchies went. Will bought a season pass and I, well, I get in free. Woo!

If you haven’t been to Space Center Houston recently, it’s pretty darn cool right now. In addition to the NASA stuff – films, rides, T-38 “pilot” simulations, and a huge model of the Shuttle Orbiter that you can climb in around through – they have a George Lucas Films exhibit. There’s a ropes course for the truly adventurous to experience, Star Wars “training” exercises, and some other stuff I forgot because it’s not really baby friendly. There were props exhibited, too, and there are character sightings at certain days.

So while Seth and I waited for the Frenchies to get back from the long, hot tour through JSC (take a lot of water), I tried to find ways to amuse the littlest man. We looked at some Droids, marveled at Orbiter scale, and wandered around. I knew there had to be something with lots of buttons for him, so …

… we went to the Mission Control area in the Kids Zone. Really, there’s not a whole lot for babies to do at SCH. Toddlers and bigger kids can have fun in the play zone, but these little ones are too overwhelmed. But! Seth LOVES to push buttons. He had a fabulous time clambering over the Mission Control set-up (which has remote cameras in the play tower/slide thingie for interactive fun), and pushing every button he could find. I wish I could have taken a picture of him standing on the counter, hitting every button in site, but I thought it better to be safe and hold on to him while he whacked the buttons.