Children's Museum/Daddy's a Hero

The first full day in San Antonio was kind of kid fun day. In the morning we went to the Children's Museum. It was pretty neat and Jaxon had lots of fun. There were all kind of things for kids to do. Jaxon's favorite by far was the balls where there were all kinds of tubes to put them in and watch them go through. It's kind of hard to explain so here are the pics.












The balls were at the very front so it was hard to convince Jaxon to look at the other stuff but we finally got him to go if we promised he could go back to play with the balls.

Kids could make music with this wooden organ-type player.




Jaxon being the pilot. He took me for a ride to Satanta.


Landing planes.




This is an elevator that the kids had to pull manually. He started out doing it then said it was daddy's turn.




Jaxon compared to David Robinson.


The Bubble room.








At the bank ATM.


Digging for fossils.


In the market.




Milking a cow.


Not only did Jaxon love this but Grandma, Daddy and Mommy played with it too.




Now to the "Daddy's a Hero" part. Blake was in the ball area with Jaxon while my mom and I waited outside of it. We started hearing someone yelling for help. At first, we thought it was someone playing around then it was getting louder and we started to see people move to see what was going on. We finally saw that one of the guys who worked at the museum got his hand stuck in one of the ball contraptions. I had seen him earlier. He obviously was mentally handicapped. I noticed that when the balls got stuck going through the tubes people that worked there would get a wire hanger or something to help push it through. Well this guy had put his hand in to get a ball unstuck and went too far and got himself stuck. People started yelling to call 911.

I went in to get Jaxon when I saw that Blake and some other people were trying to help the guy. One of the people that worked there finally turned off the machines so the paddle quit bearing down on his arm. They tried for awhile to get his arm out. Blake decided it couldn't be done without breaking the machine so he bent it and reached up to pull the kids arm out. Blake was pretty sure he broke his arm though. The ambulance got there right after they got him out. So that is how Daddy was a hero. My mom kept talking about it the rest of the trip. Too bad we didn't get a picture of the machine after Blake bent it up.

Funny side note. When I took Jaxon out he was asking what happened to that boy and I was trying to explain it to him. Then he started crying. My mom tried to comfort him that the guy was going to be ok but Jaxon wasn't crying for him. He was crying because he couldn't go play anymore.