Pretty much the main reason I decided to have kids...

...was so that I could bring them to the American Museum of Natural History and show them the dinosaurs. So we did that on a recent blustery weekend, and it was ALMOST everything I dreamed of, except that Jacob was fairly unimpressed and didn't appreciate all the ways we posed him to make it look like prehistoric animals were eating his head. But I have lots of dinosaur books, so I'm looking forward to another trip in the summer when he is maybe able to start distinguishing between Dinos and "other stuff that is bigger than Hank".

We've decided not to tell Jacob that dinosaurs are extinct, so shhh...... I want him to grow up thinking he could possibly run into one if he gets lost in the park.