City Museum Excursion

We headed down to the City Museum Tuesday with the Chesterfield Stay at Home mom's group. We had a big enough group that they opened on a day that they are normally closed so we got our own private tour. City Museum is a very cool place with literally hundreds of tunnels and niches that kids love to climb in. We didn't play in the entire museum, but we spent a lot of time in the World Aquarium section (which I'd never seen before, pretty neat) and in the younger kids play area (lots of tunnels, etc but scaled down for younger kids).

The aquarium was great. Our tour guide brought out lots of animals for the kids to see and touch. They got to see a couple different kids of turtles, a ferret, a cockatoo, and Cole especially liked the bunny. In one part of the aquarium area, you can climb into a boat that has a window in the bottom so you can see the tank below. Then there is a plexiglass tunnel leading out the back of the boat that goes down through the tank, like a slide, back to the ground. The kids thought that was pretty neat. Cole was a bit afraid of it at first, but then he wanted to go back in. But by that time it was time for the group to move on to another section.

I'll have to take the kids back there again, especially when they are older. They have a lot of things geared towards school age kids.

Well I started this post Tuesday and am finally getting back to finish it on Thursday night. It's been a busy week overall. Wednesday Cole had his 'Let's Sing' class which has singing, dancing, and circle time for toddlers. I thought he might enjoy getting to do something without Adam once in a while. The first class he wasn't so sure about it and seemed very eager to go get Adam at the end of class, but the second class he seemed to enjoy it a lot. Then today, we went over to Dinah's house and just let the boys play. They were all very good (no fighting at all) so Dinah and I actually got a chance to visit for a while. I had a mom's night out activity tonight, so I left early and got some Christmas shopping done while I was out too. I think tomorrow we'll just stay close to home and relax!