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We had a good time at the Children's Museum. Sam had a blast. We liked it so much that we're contemplating buying a membership.
They had a whole room devoted to bubbles. The kid was about falling over from joy. There was a contraption set up that let you pull a metal hoop over your body that made a bubble. We put Sam in it, and I pulled the rope while Jeff took a picture. So, if it didn't do something weird with the flash bouncing off the bubble, that'll be nifty.
They had cities set up...one was a generic American city, one was Tokyo and the other was...oh. Jeff informs me that it was Mexico, not a city in Mexico. (Among other exhibits, including a permanent one designed by Chuck Jones about animation.) They had the front half of a bus, and the back half of a fire engine in the generic city exhibit. Not stuck together or anything, though that would be interesting.
Sam was a bit shy about being on the bus...the driver's seat and steering wheel were there, so I put her in the seat and she steered, but wanted to get down as soon as Jeff had taken a picture, which she did.
You wouldn't know it from the way she talked about it last night though. We were laying on the bed, kind of drifting towards sleep, and I asked if she had a good time playing. (Which was the word we settled on for the museum.) She said yes, and got *very* animated, as she told me, with no
prompting, about the bus and the bubbles, and the hallways set up like caves, sliding down the firehouse pole and so on. Mostly about the bus and the bubbles though. If I hadn't been there, I would have though the bubbles were in the bus. *grin* I'm wondering how she'll take to the bus
next time.
They had a room with puzzles (make a square out of these pieces, move these disks from here to there in [blank] moves and the like), and had a big space with puzzles for little kids. Sam liked it a lot. She played with all of them, but seemed to have the best time with the rainbow puzzle and the ramp for the little car. It was the last place we went before getting our coats and leaving, and I thought that, next time we should start there. But, now that I've thought it over, I think she would have had too much energy to burn to start with something she'd have to sit down for. Running and darting from thing to thing was the order of the first half hour or so. :)
Next time, I think we'll go earlier and bring a lunch. Then we can play before lunch, have a nice, relaxed break, then go back in the afternoon. Of course, y'all *know* how my plans usually go...but I can dream. *grin*
They had a whole room devoted to bubbles. The kid was about falling over from joy. There was a contraption set up that let you pull a metal hoop over your body that made a bubble. We put Sam in it, and I pulled the rope while Jeff took a picture. So, if it didn't do something weird with the flash bouncing off the bubble, that'll be nifty.
They had cities set up...one was a generic American city, one was Tokyo and the other was...oh. Jeff informs me that it was Mexico, not a city in Mexico. (Among other exhibits, including a permanent one designed by Chuck Jones about animation.) They had the front half of a bus, and the back half of a fire engine in the generic city exhibit. Not stuck together or anything, though that would be interesting.
Sam was a bit shy about being on the bus...the driver's seat and steering wheel were there, so I put her in the seat and she steered, but wanted to get down as soon as Jeff had taken a picture, which she did.
You wouldn't know it from the way she talked about it last night though. We were laying on the bed, kind of drifting towards sleep, and I asked if she had a good time playing. (Which was the word we settled on for the museum.) She said yes, and got *very* animated, as she told me, with no
prompting, about the bus and the bubbles, and the hallways set up like caves, sliding down the firehouse pole and so on. Mostly about the bus and the bubbles though. If I hadn't been there, I would have though the bubbles were in the bus. *grin* I'm wondering how she'll take to the bus
next time.
They had a room with puzzles (make a square out of these pieces, move these disks from here to there in [blank] moves and the like), and had a big space with puzzles for little kids. Sam liked it a lot. She played with all of them, but seemed to have the best time with the rainbow puzzle and the ramp for the little car. It was the last place we went before getting our coats and leaving, and I thought that, next time we should start there. But, now that I've thought it over, I think she would have had too much energy to burn to start with something she'd have to sit down for. Running and darting from thing to thing was the order of the first half hour or so. :)
Next time, I think we'll go earlier and bring a lunch. Then we can play before lunch, have a nice, relaxed break, then go back in the afternoon. Of course, y'all *know* how my plans usually go...but I can dream. *grin*
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