Children's Museum

This last weekend we took the girls to the Children's Museum. They have $5/weekend nights for the month of February so we decided to take them and see how they did.  They LOVED it.  We had such a fun night so be prepared for a ton of pictures.

I almost went by myself so Shane could get some stuff done but I'm so glad he decided he wanted to go because although the girls played together part of the time, a lot of time they were in totally different parts of the museum.  When Siena goes off she kind of looks every once in a while to make sure one of us is around.  When Aria takes off she just starts walking and she never looks back, ever.  So I was happy we could split up and they could go wherever they wanted.

Aria loved the balls...or mostly what I call the Plinko board (from Price is Right).  They both loved playing in the water for a long time.  They loved the little kitchen that was just their size and it was so nice that I didn't have to tell them to stop touching the stove knobs every 10 seconds.  Every time I'm cooking in our kitchen they come and turn those knobs either off or full blast on my stove.  I always stand right there but still sometimes they reach right around me and turn them.  Luckily they aren't tall enough to touch the flame yet, but it's coming.  Siena loved pushing the shopping cart around and probably spent 30 minutes pushing that from one end of the museum to the other.  She only stopped when she saw a piano just her size to play and some kid came and swiped the cart from her, which she was fine with.  The other thing they loved was a huge, plastic horse they could sit on.  They love their rocking horse at home so they got on this life size horse and kept rocking back and forth.  Several times we tried to leave the horse and they went running back and wanted to sit on it again.

I turned into a little bit of a protective mother a few times when these 6 and 7 year olds would come running over and just push there way through to see something with no regard to the little kids.  I mostly just watched to see what my girls would do and mostly they didn't really mind but it bugged me.  I had to say something one time when we were in the under 3 years old area and trying to get Siena to go down this slide when a 7 year old came up and tried to cut right in front of us.  To his credit he did say excuse me but I just turned to him and nicely said 'you're going to have to wait your turn.'  What I really wanted to say was, go find somewhere else to play because you aren't under 3. 

At the end of the night Siena found these stairs with a little hand rail just her size so she started learning how to go up and down stairs standing up instead of crawling up and down them.  She stood there practicing for about 10 minutes, such a big girl.  Sorry they are blurry.

I didn't know how long they would last or how much they would really like it but it was a great night and a ton of fun for them and us.