The Children’s Museum

Lisa and I took our four girls to The Children’s Museum last week – sort of a “last hurrah” before our big girls start Kindergarten!

I talked my mother into taking James for the day.  He was so excited he demanded to be buckled in the car seat while it was still in the driveway.  :)

My mom said he was delightful and didn’t fuss a bit for her!

They met up with Kathryn (who is in town for a few days) for lunch.  My mom sent me these pictures with the title “Busboy Nightmare.” 

Those eyelashes!

Cutest boy in the universe?  Yes, I think so!

So that’s what James was up to while we were having our girls day at the museum.

I shot everything on Manual at the museum, and boy was that an exercise!  It was pretty dark, but the lighting changed with every room and nook we went into.  Because I’m so behind on blogging and I don’t think any of these pictures are particularly terrific, I’m not bothering to edit anything.  I’m just using the pictures as is to tell the story.  Enjoy!

Emma is using her skirt to hold all the golf balls.  :)

Natalie threw a fit when she couldn’t get her vest zipped up all the way (it only zipped part-way up by design).  Lisa patiently explained to her how it worked.  :)

Emma appears to be the engineer of the bunch; Natalie is just in it for the dress-up.

They all enjoyed the little phone center.

Anna is really strong.  I pulled Natalie up on this thing, and it was tough.  I can’t imagine pulling up your own body weight.

Joanna “helped” one time, but I saw Anna do it all herself as well.

Driving an old Mustang!

The kids had a great time playing together and discovering things.

It was madness keeping up with them, and I only had two!  There were just so many people there, and it’s too easy to get separated in that kind of environment.

There was a craft room set up with all kinds of projects you could make.  They weren’t geared for Natalie’s age, but she was perfectly happy cutting paper while I constructed a pinwheel for her.  :)

All the girls with their pinwheels!

We ate our sack lunch next to where they were playing with the parachute, and soon a couple of ours were lured over to play.

{The sticker on the back of Natalie says “If lost please call” and then lists my phone number.}

They have this giant climbing structure that spans three floors I think.  You have to be five, so Anna and Joanna did some climbing.

It was pretty massive!

The last place we stopped before heading out was this giant main street type place with all kinds of shops.  It was crammed with people, but still very fun!

The girls all loved investigating the ambulance.

Dr. Joanna!

We stopped outside on our way to the car to eat a quick snack before heading home.  I took a picture, but unfortunately didn’t pay any attention to my settings.  I still had the ISO set waaaaay high from being inside the museum.  So the picture pretty much looks like a white piece of paper.  :)

Oh well!

We had a great time – that was a great idea Lisa!