Weekend at the Frog Exhibit

With mom volunteering this Saturday with her company, I decided to take Gage to the local Natural Science Museum for the Frog Exhibit. For those of you who don't know, Houston has one of the finest museum districts in the United States. We ended up at the Cockerel Butterfly Exhibit for a few minutes before and watched over a hundred different butterflies flying around the rain forest like setting within the glass pyramid. Kids gobble this stuff up!!! Afterwards, we toured the frog exhibit and just were in awe at the number and variety of the frogs that coexist with us.



As we were leaving the museum, Gage pointed over to the fountains within the Japanese Tea Gardens. We headed over and found this really cool statue of Gandhi. Gage sat by the statue for about 3 seconds before he got bored and decided to wander away. I was still excited about the statue and proceeded to take a few more pictures before I looked over my shoulder and saw the little man peering through a fence that borders the garden. Before I could get over to him, he decides to stick his head between to posts and gets stuck. I've already reached him by this point and am working his head back and forth trying to get him unstuck at which point he starts to struggle. I start to get panicky and start visioning myself sitting at the CPS office while Xuan's comforting Gage who had to have himself cut out with the jaws of life by a bunch of firefighters. Luckily, I managed to position his head and pull it through and pick him up as he started to cry. We made our break, before the other parents could get their CPS cards out. Close call !!!! Next week, we're scheduling to visit something a little safer for all ages, the Houston's Children's Museum - wish us luck!