owen the paleontologist

as most of you know, owen doesn't just like dinosaurs, he lives them.  not only does he have an ever growing dinosaur library (and a scientific dinosaur vocabulary) he can tell you the difference between the mesozoic and the carboniferous periods; he can spell micropachycephalasaurs (me, i'm not so sure); he can differentiate between a styrachasaurus and a triceratops.  and now, he can assemble a trex fossil!

having exhausted the "walking with dinosaur" series (and the "walking with monsters"--life before dinsoaurs.  go ahead, ask him about early arthropods!) he's been having fun with the kratt brothers and zoboomafo (thanks edy & jerry for the subscription to big backyard which came with this awesome dvd!)--in one epsiode they build a dinosaur out of a bag of bones (ok, they had exact puzzle-piece replicas but then they painted it and mixed it up for good fun).

so last night at nana & papa's house he had the idea to build his owEn dinosaur.  this morning i printed out a copy of a trex fossil (zoom dinosaurs by the way is a great dinosaur resource with accurate coloring pages--no anachronistic cavemen or grinning dragons) and left to edit chapter three of the diss.  when i came back after making minimal progress nana and owen assembled an entire  tyrannosaurus rex from papa's wood scraps.  and i must say, it's the most beautiful dinosaur i've ever seen!

and the completed skeleton (after owen carefully doublechecked his blueprint and directed the careful assembling of each incisor and cranial piece!):

just watch out for those carnivore teeth!