Children's Museum

On Wednesday we went to the Discovery Gateway Children's Museum. I've been wanting to take Addie there for awhile because I used to love going there when I was younger. It's been moved to a new building and it's a little different but it was still great.

We spent most of our time in the Garden area and the Kid's Eye View areas. It has some really fun stuff in there! Here are some pictures of some of the things the kids can do in there!

They have a market where the kids can go shopping and ring up their groceries.

There is a farm where they can sit on a life sized plastic horse.

A service station with a car & gas pump along with a bunch of the Little Tikes ride on toys.

Water Play with tubes, balls and buckets, and more.

It was fun seeing them all explore and enjoy all the things there were. The area most of the kids seemed to love most was the Water Play in Kid's Eye View. Addie's shirt and pants were pretty wet by the time we left.

Out in the Garden Area they have a big beehive type structure and there are a bunch of balls going through tubes, down holes, etc. They all go back to this one main thing where the balls drop down into this pit. The balls are pretty far down and I kept telling Addie to go get them out of an easier place but she insisted on doing it the hard way! She's such a climber!

I thought this picture was funny. They have a tube that acts like a vacuum- when you lift up the flap, air comes blowing out. You then stick the ball in and it sucks it up into the tube. This is when someone else lifted the flap up and the air is blowing on Addie's face!

Lately Addie has an obsession with stuffed animals. She usually wants a particular stuffed animal with her most of the day. She talks to it like it's a real person and plays with it. She found a stuffed bunny and a stuffed dog at the museum and pretty much carried one of them around with her the whole time. Here she is with the dog.

It's a bit on the expensive side so it will be something special we do every once in awhile but it is a great place to visit! We got there at 10 and finally convinced the kids to leave at 12:45 because WE were tired!