Our Trip to the Children’s Museum

Another beautiful summer weekend has come and gone. Today, we were supposed to meet up with Emma’s grandma to go looking for fossils on the “fossil beach” (a beach notorious for having lots of fossils) nearby but, the weather had other plans. It never rained really hard but the drizzle was enough to cancel our fossil hunt. Since we had planned for a trip south, we decided to stop by and check out the new children’s museum in the area. I was hesitant about going to this children’s museum in particular because I read reviews that it wasn’t the greatest, but for a quick trip on a Sunday we figured we’d give it a shot.

We picked up Emma’s older cousin and headed off on our rainy day adventure. The area that the museum is located was not crowded and there was parking steps away which was great. I am a fan of no crowds so already that was a plus. When we got to the entrance, we were greeted with a life sized big bird sculpture. Emma kept pointing up and waving to him.

Upon entering, there is a large room to the left and one to the right with different activities. I wanted to just let Emma run around but it was difficult getting her to go in any sort of direction that made sense so we ended up carrying her between exhibits. They had a lot of great activities for older kids (her cousin is 7) and for kids Emma’s age. She spent quite a bit of time at the big puzzles and the cars. They also had an area for dress up and a large kitchen. There was also a section for the kids to go grocery shopping (Emma did not understand the concept of putting the groceries back on the self - which makes sense since we don’t normally shop and then put things back.) There was also an awesome international exhibit where you could press buttons to hear different phrases in different languages and see different computer keyboards from different countries (mommy got excited for this part.)

 

 

Then we went into the under 3 year old room which had a climbing area that Emma LOVED (future gymnast I swear.) There were tunnels and stairs and a slide. She kept going back and forth over and over and loving every minute of it. She was the smallest kid in there too! The room also had a bunch of toys for free play which was nice but you had to watch and make sure sharing was going on (Emma and this one girl were having a slight tiff over a plastic fork – apparently Emma found a fellow fork lover.) Thus my helicopter propellers were working overtime (hence the picture below.) She also took to the plastic zoo animals, in which she picked them up, held them in the air, and screamed DOOOOOGGGGIIIIEE!! (blurry picture evidence below) Several parents looked over and all I could do was explain she has 4 dogs at home so anything that walks on all fours is a doggie to her.

 

 

 

We didn’t make it to the Theater or the other events scheduled. To be honest the layout got a little confusing or maybe running after two kids disoriented us. This was our second time taking Emma’s cousin with us somewhere and let me tell you, watching over two kids running around is a lot more complicated (mental note for later.) So it felt like we were lucky to make it out of there with both kids and all of our belongs in tact.

Overall for a rainy Sunday back up plan, it was a good visit. In the future, it would be nice to see what else the museum offers. I did wish they had a little bit more, maybe more active activities if that makes sense. There seemed to be only three main areas so, not quite as grand as it could have been but, as we were leaving we did see a sign that they will be adding an outdoor adventure area, so we look forward to that. I am still really excited to go to the other children’s museum in our area, which I hear is epic. It is a bit further away so it will probably be an all day excursion but hey this is childhood bring on the adventure!