It's fun for us now that she's old enough to understand what a surprise is and asks questions. We asked if she knew where we were going and she actually guessed we were going to see dinosaurs shortly after we left the house! She never ceases to amaze us.
She was a silly girl on the way there and looked too cute with her blankie on her head, I had to snap a picture.
The museum's exhibits are geared mostly for kids who are older, so we stayed mostly in the Children's Museum area which is for kids under 8 years old, though the majority of the kids were about 2-5 years old when we were there.
Right when we walked in, there was a formula 1 race car that we had to get a picture with for Poppy. However Harper's focus was only on the dinosaurs, so we went directly there. Jon said they still have the same dinosaurs from when he was a kid, which I found pretty funny. Harper wasn't scared of them at all and she kept roaring her best dinosaur roar at them. She and Daddy explored the computers there, and we finally convinced her to sit inside the footprint.
After we were done with the dinosaurs, we went to the Children's exhibit and she loved everything in there. She loved the trolly and kept running inside and out because she liked the sound her feet made on the floor. They had building blocks and even though she has those at home, she still wanted to play with those there. There was a big area with train tracks you can build any which way and Daddy (and Harper) had a blast playing with those. There was a baby hospital area and you could see x-rays, swaddle baby dolls, drive an ambulance and have your height checked. She waited so patiently to drive that ambulance and had the biggest smile when she was finally able to. Then we moved on to the grocery area which allows kids to play on the registers and the scanners. Though they are supposed to be able to go to all the shelves and pick out things from the grocery lists they provide, the carts were all filled to the brim and the shelves were bare. A few of us parents were making a game out of having the kids put things BACK on the shelves instead, and that seemed to work pretty well.
We went to the outside area for a little while, but it was rather chilly and very windy that day, so she played a little bit on the water guns (and she was pretty good!) but we didn't last long out there.
We had some lunch and let Harper have some worms and dirt. She loved the worms, but not the dirt so much (the cookies were pretty soggy). Daddy was happy to have her leftovers and I got her to give me a huge dirt smile. While I fed Jasper the rest of his lunch, Harper and Daddy went upstairs to check out the ranchers exhibit. There wasn't much for her to be interested in, but she did love seeing the cows.
We left shortly aftewards and had promised Harper we would walk around the side of the building to where the big dinosaurs were outside. This is where she really gave out her best roars, but also where she finally got scared. I guess a T-Rex is a lot scarier than a big skeleton inside.
We were there less than 3 hours, but it was the perfect amount of time for our two little ones. We got home and everyone laid down for a nap. I couldn't sleep, so I decided to load the pictures from the day. I searched and searched but couldn't find the camera anywhere. I waited for Daddy to wake up and he couldn't find it either. I called the museum lost and found and someone had turned it in!!! Apparently it fell out of the stroller when he had loaded it in to the back of the car. After just buying this camera, we were soooo thrilled to have gotten it back. Not to mention all the memories we had just captured that day!
Here are just a fraction of the pictures we have. It was a lot of fun!
Harper with the race car.
Harper and Daddy with the dinosaur.
With the littler dinosaur.
Sitting in the footprint.
Standing in the gator's mouth.
Driving the ambulance.
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