Quick Visit to the Children's Museum

Andrew lucked out with tickets to a Tool concert last Friday night in STL so the kids and I were home alone.  Not wanting to be stuck at home on a super cold day, I decided to pack the kids up and take them to the Children's Museum Saturday morning.  Annnddddd I really HAD to because you mention something to Tommy once, he will NOT forget it.  "We're still going to the Children's Museum, right? Right??"

 It was VERY cold that day.  I decided I didn't want to lug my coat around so I left it in the car and just walked really fast from the parking garage to the museum.  We made it to the elevator and took a breath.  Phew.  So cold.

 We walk into the main atrium and lo and behold-- a Star Wars display!!! Tommy was sooooo excited!  So was Charlotte, actually!

 ERMAGERD! DARTH MAUL!!

 We went to the Ninja Turtles exhibit for the first time.  We have been meaning to go since it opened in September.  It was really cool!


What's better than skateboarding!?!? Totally Tubular!

HIIIII-YAHHHH!!

The Pirates and Princesses Exhibit is not going to be open for another week.  Totally egregious, dude! (Oh wait, that's more Bill and Ted than Ninja Turtles, ha!)

I didn't get any pictures of us going down the Chocolate Slide but I think that was my favorite part. 

You can see what Charlotte's favorite part was. HORSIES!!!!!!

 In each picture....

Her smile gets consecutively BIGGER!! Boy does she love those horsies!!

We would have stayed longer and played more but Mama got a migraine out of NOWHERE and we had to go home.  It was rough. I haven't had a migraine since high school! What the heck??  I had a blind spot (medical term: aura, I think?) in my central vision and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to drive home. But I went outside once again without a coat and that helped a LOT. Cold usually does.  My blind spot went away (I still felt like crap) but I was able to drive home.  Phew! Ugh, kinda scary. 

I felt so bad for the kids because they were soooo good that day but we saw everything we wanted and they both got a little something from the gift shop before we left.  It was a great day! We'll have to go back before our membership is up at the end of February.  We can't miss Pirates and Princesses! :)

Children's Museum Round 2 for the Year

 My mom and I took the kids to the Children's Museum when Andrew was gone.  As soon as we got there, there was a transformers "show" happening so we sat down and watched.  The woman on the right pushed out this car and all the sudden it started to "transform". 

 There was a person in that car!! Amazing! Haha! It was a quick little 15 minute show.  It TERRIFIED Charlotte so my mom took her into the gift shop while the show was happening.  Tommy LOVED it.  His new obsession is transformers so this was right up his alley.  At the end of the show, Megatron's voice played over the speaker like it was talking to Bumblebee (Tommy's fave).  Tommy asked all day long where Megatron was in the museum.  He heard his voice.  He had to be upstairs or something right? :-)

So after the show, we HAD to head straight to the Transformers exhibit.  We tried to convince Tommy to have his picture taken with Optimus Prime but he refused and said he would rather take Grandma's picture with him.  ;-) Grandma was a good sport and now she's on the internet!!! Oh no!!

 Tranformer Tommy and Little Miss Pigtails had a GREAT time playing with all the transformers!

 Then it was time for Lights Camera Action exhibit.  We sat in this movie set golf cart.  Charlotte really thought she was going for a ride.

 Then we played with the costumes.

 These two really love costumes so we spent quite a bit of time here.

 We sat on the movie set and Tommy worked the camera.  Fun!

 Then we switched!

 They also had a little show in this exhibit about different genres. Tommy volunteered to play a part.  They gave him the part of the "Doctor" in the court room scene. 

 The big moment was when the witness points to the doctor and says "HE DID IT! IT WAS DR. BLAHBLAH!"  Everyone in the scene pointed to Tommy when this happened and very dramatic music played...   and Charlotte burst into tears!! Scared the crap out of her!! I thought it was pretty funny.  She got over it quickly. 

 We went to the Hot Wheels exhibit. Who would have thought that putting 1,000 hot wheels in a room with tracks would be so entertaining? It was education and entertaining.  It was my favorite part of the day I think.  But I've always loved hot wheels. 

 Then it was dinosaur time! It was so nice it wasn't busy so we could actually get in to dig up bones this time!

 Then we put on MORE costumes, of course.

 These kids and their costumes! Boy, do they love dressing up!

 Charlotte loved carrying around the dino eggs.

 We had to the ride the carousel!

 We also had to play in the water area.  Also a great exhibit!

 Before we left, we stopped by the gigantic Bumblebee.  Yes, Tommy is posing with his brand new Bumblebee from Grandma. 

Wow, did he have a great day or what? Bumblebee selfie! We can't wait to go back this fall when they have a ninja turtles exhibit!!

A Visit to the Children's Museum

We told Tommy after a solid month of #2's in the potty, we would visit the Children's Museum.  We have only been one other time and it was two years ago. (Check out the post! It was sooooo long ago. I can't believe how little Tommy looks.) 

The day finally came where we could go so we went! It was super fun! We bought an annual membership because they are going to have exhibits for Transformers and Ninja Turtles this fall so we'll be back! 

 We visited the dinosaurs exhibit.  Tommy LOVES dinosaurs.  In fact, I think Charlotte likes them too.  There were lots of caves to climb in so that explains the bum shot picture. :)

 They had little play tables with dines on them which the kids just love too! They can totally do this at home but for some reason, they love doing it here more!

 The train section has lots of areas to climb underneath also.

 Plus more play tables! Something else they can do at home but LOVE Doing here.  I heard at least 5 parents say, "Come on, let's go! We have this at home! Let's go see something else." Haha!

 I didn't get a picture but we ran into the Staffords when we sat down to eat lunch so we ate lunch with them.  That was super fun! Andrew looks ticked but don't worry, he was not. :)

 With an annual pass, we were able to ride the carousel for free.  Yay! Kids loved that!

Tommy reallllllly wanted to ride a tiger even though it didn't go up and down.  He didn't care.  He loves his tigers (because they start with T).

 Charlotte loved her black horse.  She wasn't complaining.  Thank goodness you can tie them on those things.  Seems dangerous!

 After the carousel, we played in the Science Works Center.  There are lots of boats and canals and running water for the kids to play in.  You can tell from this picture that we had to carry Charlotte out of there in the football hold kicking and screaming after she had wayyyyy too much fun dousing herself with water.  Yay for a good time! She got over it. :)

 We got a picture in the Indy 500 car of course.  Tommy was disappointed the steering wheel didn't work.

Charlotte LOVED the polar bear.  She kept growling at him and then waving.  It was ridiculously cute.

We had a really great time at the Children's Museum.  We didn't cover hardly half of what we could have.  I guess we'll just have to go back!