We have had plans for well over a year now to go to the Iowa Children's Museum during Family Night (last Friday Night of every month is Family Night, which means it's free admission), however with race season it limited when we could go and it seemed there was always something going on. In March I said we're doing it, then Shaun was admitted to the hospital, so when I found out I had to take a class and not get off work until 4 on the last Friday of April, it worked out perfectly.
Matt and the kids picked me up and we went and ate at La Reyna (which we highly recommend) then were off to the Museum. I'd never been inside and really had no idea what it was going to be like. I was pleasantly surprised it wasn't PACKED. There was minimal waiting and plenty to do. I felt a little like I was rushing Katelyn as we got there two hours before closing and not knowing how much there was, I wanted to make sure we saw everything. We could have easily spent the entire day in there. Our only "bad" experience was in the barn play area where I finally had to physically hold back kids who were 8+ (when the sign said for kids 5 and under only) so that she could go down the slide as they would just push right past her. I really wanted to be at the bottom to catch her, but she did fine.
I'll let the pictures show you what all we did.
Matt took this picture and the next and I had no idea until I was going through the pictures later on as I was in there with Katelyn. I love how she's so intent on what she's doing.
She loves her bread, though she eats the crust and throws the good part away, silly girl. This was all in the grocery store.
This totally cracked me up and had Matt going what in the world is she doing? She was saying "I sopping, I sopping" while pushing one cart and pulling the other, which is exactly what I do when I have both kids by myself (back when I took Shaun in the stores in the car seat). I would put Shaun in one cart and Katelyn sitting in the other and then have to push one and pull the other (especially at CVS and Walgreens where they have the worlds smallest shopping carts.
She wasn't quite sure what to make of the huge toothbrush and teeth.
She was all about the packpack, not so much on the hat.
This was a stage they had set up for the kids to put on costumes and then perform. She had more fun climbing all over the stuff and she's laughing here as she had just hit me in the head with the noodle and we about both fell off of the stage.
Shaun had fun chilling in the stroller.
When we went into the ambulance there was a baby doll in there, so Katelyn did the natural thing, changed it's diaper, haha. She's tried doing this to some of the kids at daycare too I hear and of course does it to Shaun also. A guy standing there said "I know every time I've been in an ambulance there has been a baby having it's diaper changed". I wanted to tell him maybe he should spend less time in ambulances.
There was a big room with multiple activities in it that included the slide. We probably only did about half of the things in there as there were some lines in here and some of it was kind of above Katelyn, plus we were in a hurry.
Daddy said I wasn't doing it right, so I made him go up and help Katelyn drop the golf ball.
Shaun was all about chewing on the alphabet.
Katelyn held this up and said U (while Matt and I about fell over) before giving it to Shaun. So then Matt held up a W and asked her what it was. She said red (which it was), but we repeatedly asked her what letter only to be told red, like duh don't you guys know your colors.
When we go to LaReyna, Katelyn needed an outfit change. However, no Katelyn pants in the van, luckily though there were a pair of 12 month jeans for Shaun for next year we had recently bought. It cracks me up though that she has this much diaper showing with 12 month pants on. I hope we can find shorts that stay up this summer.
Playing house. They have some of the cutest things there and some really creative people.
Feeding the baby doll a flower, good to know not only does she eat them, but she thinks others should too.
Washing her hands.
This doesn't cover near what all there is to do there. I highly recommend it. I think it helped we went on the first nice Friday of the year (so a lot of people were outside doing stuff).
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