Let's Discover

On New Year's we decided to give the children's museum a go. We had a total blast! We loved it enough that we got a year's membership. The offspring have asked to go back almost every day. There have been tears shed because we can't go every time they want to go. When you first walk in, you see the fire truck and the ambulance. K truly almost had a heart attack from the excitement. He ran, more like sprinted over to where they were at. we walked past the ambulance to get to the fire truck. He stuck his head into the ambulance and when he realized there was no one in it, he took advantage of it. Of course he was the driver and was so happy until he realized that there were pedal's at M's feet. When she used the pedal's, the lights came on on the ambulance. There was an instant change of position so that he could try the lights. Keep in mind all of this only took a matter of seconds. He liked the ambulance, but he knew that the fire truck was just sitting there waiting for him to play on it.

They had all the fireman gear that he could have put on, but he couldn't wait to get in the driver's seat. He loved that he could turn on the siren. There was a cb radio that you could hear the dispatcher on. There was even a nasty stuffed dalmatian that I wouldn't let him touch, but it was there for kids (with nicer mom's) to play with. 

Both of them loved the little restaurant. I loved watching them pretend to make B pizza and get him so many drinks that it's no wonder he couldn't finish all of his food. There was a cash register that M fell in love with. At first she tried to organize all of the food that was scattered all over the place. But she soon learned that not all the other little kids shared in her need for a tidy kitchen. She then tried to man the register, but it only took one boy getting in her space before she decided to help K make food for B. When K told B that his total was over $1,000 I was thankful I had passed on getting anything!

They have this really awesome baby area. The flash went off on our camera so you can't really tell, but he's sitting at a table that has water in it. It smells so strongly of  chlorine that I'm sure the germs just got a whiff of it and die. He loved being able to splash. I'm not sure that the little boy next to him was too thrilled that little B loves the water so much. Once his face was dripping with water and the other little boy was wet thanks to him, I took him out and put him on the little cushion things. 

At first he crawled over and tried to steal a toy from the unsuspecting baby that was there before him. I pulled him back and that's when he noticed the mirror. He loves to look at himself! I know that most babies do, but if he's crying and we put him in front of the mirror, he stops and starts to clap and laugh at himself. He crawled over to the mirror and obviously got close to it so he could admire himself. He and I stayed in the baby place for a long time. He never got tired of the mirror or the fact that he was the biggest kid there. He wasn't the oldest, just the biggest. Poor, smaller, helpless children that met him. It's not like I let him lay on top of the smaller species, but he's mobile. He would crawl from one side to the other. By the time I had walked to the other side he had inevitably crawled over someone or taken a toy from someone else, or both. Darn It! Hopefully he grows out of the right?!

There was a sunken ship. They crawled in the hole and studied the map to try and get back to the surface. Thankfully the ladder was calling their name and they climbed up it and were able to come out. Why they didn't just crawl out the hole on the side of the boat will forever be a mystery. They had to crawl passed the hole to get to the ladder, but whatever!

I wish that there was a way that I could have gotten a better picture of the airplane. Alas, it is not to be. If you can't tell by their fake smiles, we were ready to wrap up our visit to the museum. They loved it and had a really good time, but we were all ready to go. We can hardly wait to go back!