A Trip to the Children's Museum

When we lived in Minneapolis, one of our favorite places to go was the Children's Museum. With 4 floors of hands on fun it was just a great place to play, especially in the winter, and it's been one of the things we miss the most. So, when we found out Missoula had it's own Children's Museum Bree and I were thrilled and we went today, along with our good friends, Karen and her kids Olivia and Nathan. (Actually, this is the second time we've been, but I forgot the camera the first time around.) :) This one was a little smaller, but it still had plenty of wonderful learning activities and interactive play things for the kids....

There was a nursery play area where the little ones could play without getting run over by the bigger kids, so Nathan and Noah spent a lot of time rolling around in there. The soft blocks were especially a bit hit with both of them.

The boys wrestling over who gets this yellow block. Yes, the learning to share thing starts pretty much at day one, especially for these two, being younger siblings and all.

Meanwhile the big girls spent their time racing around visiting all the different themed rooms. Here they are being rain drops in the water cycle and "falling to earth." (Climbing up the stairs was supposed to be water vapor going up into the clouds.) Although, I'm pretty sure this part went right over their heads and they were just having fun racing on the slides!

Brianna whipping up a tasty snack in the kitchen room.

Of course, after they made their snacks, Olivia and Bree had to try them. (Mmm...tastes like painted wood.)

Bree directing some traffic in the transportation room.

And here she is digging up some "fossils" in the Dino Dig section, one of her favorite areas.

The girls creating their own rythms and beating on the big drum. (Just like the Dr. Suess book... Two little monkeys drumming on a drum. Dum ditty dum ditty dum dum dum.)

Of course, Bree also had to spend some time on one of her obsessions right now, the computer!

One of Bree and Olivia's other favorite features was the water room where they could splash their hands in some fountains and use plastic pipes to make the water flow wherever they wanted, but somehow I didn't end up with a picture of that one. Yep, there was lots to do there! We had a great time and it was just what the doctor ordered for our winter blues.