Children's Museum

Today the boys and I met my mother in law, my sister in law Beth and her 2 little ones at the Children's Museum. Beth has a family pass plus 2 guests so we were able to get in for free! We all had a blast. Eli hasn't been since he was 17 months old and this was Jude's first time going. We started off on the lower level and let the kids play with the blown glass replicas. It is a beautiful area of the museum that is so full of colors. We then took the kids up to the play scape and let them run around. Eli absolutely loved the water table!!! He actually tried to climb in it a few different times. Even with the vest they provide he was soaked. Luckily we had a change of clothes because after he was done at the water table he was ready to go to the sand table. Both of the boys had a blast being able to walk around and explore. I had to remind Eli several times that he had to stay in the same area as mommy or grandma because he was ready to run and find the next activity. :-) We then went to ride the carousel. Eli has ridden a carousel many times before and we ride the penny pony at Meijer all the time but today he didn't want anything to do with the moving ponies. So he and Grandma rode around on the bench and Jude, John Paul, and Madeleine got to ride on the animals.

Grandma and all her grand kids

Madeleine, Eli, Jude Grandma, John Paul

I love the way Jude is looking at his Grandma

Eli and Madeleine working together

Eli Grandma and John Paul checking out the beautiful colors

Looking at the reflections on the floor

Poor John Paul can't move on this floor

Jude liked all the colors on the floor!

Having fun in the toddler area

Jude found his reflection!

He loved it

It was so so cute!!

Eli had so much fun playing in the water with Grandma!!

Jude found some cars to play with

Eli enjoyed the slide

Jude had fun in the sand

After lunch my mother in law, Beth, and her little ones headed home but me and the boys wanted to check out a few more exhibits. Eli LOVES dinosaurs so we had to check out the dinosaurs. It was so neat to see how into it he was. There was a museum worker talking about T rexes and Eli just stood there and listened. Jude was not so into it. He wouldn't touch any of the dinosaur statues and just wanted me to hold him. Both of the boys had fun playing with all the little artifacts they had. Neither of them would put the costumes on but we still had lots of fun!

Eli taking in all the dinosaurs

He loves Dinosaurs!

He couldn't get enough

Checking out the big Nino footprint!

Jude had fun checking out the dinosaur nest

Eli had fun digging for dinosaur bones

Jude looked pretty cute in the goggles!

They both had fun playing with the little dinosaurs

We then checked out a few of the smaller exhibits like the race car, the trains and the Arctic area. Eli thought the big polar bear was pretty cool and he liked that we could walk through the big train. To end our trip we went and played with the blown glass replicas one more time and then headed home. The boys had a blast and were sound asleep in the car within 2 minutes of leaving!

Racecar Driver Eli!!!

Racecar Driver Jude!!!

Vroom Vroom

The blown glass replicas were so much fun!!!

Eli and Mommy looking up at all the pretty colors on the ceiling!

Thanks again Beth, it was such a fun day!!