Picture Wednesday and the Children's Museum

Picture Wednesday.  Finny face at 29 weeks old.

Finn is a little mover lately.  He's dangerously close to crawling and I don't especially like that.  He rolls around and scoots himself in circles on his tummy trying to get to whatever toy or brother might be just out of reach.  He's just starting to pull his knees up underneath him.  I sort of want to pinch him or something when he does that so he'll stop wanting to move and crawl and grow up...bad parenting?  He's officially done being swaddled up for naps and night time.  He's been wriggling out of it for a while but today I put him down and just covered him with his blanket and he just conked out.  He looked so big lying there all big kid like. 

I'm feeling completely 100% better, by the way.  It was a rough few days, but by Sunday night I was feeling better.  I'm glad that's over with and hope I don't have to deal with it again.  What a mess.

A couple of week ago we went to the children's museum down town with the Cluff ladies.  Their daddy was working late, and Glenn was out of town so we made a full night of it.  We found an incredible deal on tickets.  They closed the museum down for the event and only those who bought this deal could get in.  The museum was not terribly busy, the tickets for the event were half price and included pizza, cake, face painting and other fun perks.  We were stoked and took full advantage of it.  We got there right as it started and left when the museum closed.  Three and a half hours of playing and the kids were very happy the whole time.  I got to chat with Janelle for hours, watch our happy kids run around, and didn't have to make dinner.  Have I adequately expressed how happy I was about our evening out?  Good.

The first floor is a fire station exhibit with a real fire truck to climb on.  Pretty cool.

Upstairs Tate loves the rocket exhibit.  Kids who are interested in coloring and crafting make their own rockets using supplies and then decorate them before launching them at the little launch pads.  Tate is happy to scavenge the side of the rocket launch booth for others' discarded rockets.

He  LOVES this part.  You push one button to charge the launcher and the other button shoots the rocket in the air.  He could do this over and over for hours.

Since it's summer time the museum set up a new water exhibit outside demonstrating different things water can do.  This was Tate's favorite part.  You get balls from one part of the exhibit, throw them in this bucket, and watch them swirl down the vortex and get flushed out the bottom.

Here are the kiddos (Tori, Tate, and Lizzy), soaked after playing in the water exhibit for almost an hour.

The bubble room is another favorite of Tate's.  He wears the purple lab coat and goggles so he doesn't get his clothes dirty and bubbles in his eyes.  It's funny.  There are tons of different ways to make and play with bubbles.  He loves standing underneath this bubble machine that is on the ceiling.  It makes big bubbles filled with fog.  When they get big enough, they drop.

And all the kids anxiously waiting underneath get to chase them down and pop them.

Here are Tate and Lizzy inside the square bubble.  You stand inside, pull on the rope, and the sides come up so you're trapped inside a giant bubble room.  Tate likes to kick and pop the bubble walls.  Very cool.

And here's what Finn did most of the evening.  I love the children's museum.  It is so fun to watch the kids get so excited and never get bored because there is so much to do.  We didn't make it to everything but we sure played hard.

Thanks Cluff ladies for joining us for a super fun play date.   We had a blast!