know your dinosaurs: take the quiz!

i've just been googling for some good dinosaur crafts to do--and i realized that not only has owen's comprehension surpassed dinosaur sock puppets (which are regular button-eyed sock guys with mohawks) and dinosaur oragami (which does look cool--but not quite a pachycephalasaurus) but that i've become quite dinosaur saavy myself. all i remember from grade school was that boys liked trexes and i was partial to the not-spiny brontosaurus (who i think is now a generic term for the saurapods liek brachi- and apata- . . .). but i've found myself intrigued both the scientific mystery of it all and the nomenclature. so looking around i even had a go at a dinosaur quiz (which i can proudly say i scored a perfect ten). anyhow, i think we'll just make our own dinosaur book using watercolors, markers and construction paper.
so the question is will this be a book about the jurrasic or the cretaceous. . .

another recent development in the dinosaur obsession has been taking pictures of his dinosaurs (hmmm wonder where the obsessive archiving comes from??)--owen poses them (like getting pteranodon to sit on top of brachiasaurus' head which is actually pretty impressive) and plays with angle and perspective (let's get just red trex's head or stand back and get all of dinosaur land). i personally think he needs his own lacma exhibit (kind of like the edouard sautai exhibit we saw at gallerie des enfants at the pompidou). his best work is still the snaps from dino mountain posted below but here are a few more he took with my phone at home: