One of my friend's from high school, Erica, and her daughter Annabelle received a year family membership to the Children's Museum. She graciously invited Lola and I along for a play date this past Tuesday. It was great catching up with Erica because we've both been so busy that we haven't been able to spend much time together. Our girls enjoyed the museum but I think that the mom's enjoyed it the most.
In the main stairway of the Children's Museum is a Chihuly glass installation. His artwork is amazing. For the kids under the installation is a place that they can play with pieces of plastic and make their own smaller installations. Annabelle knew what she was doing. Lola just got ahold of the pieces and wouldn't let go. For more information on Chihuly go to this website. His artwork is AMAZING!
Lola and Annabelle figuring out the little pieces.
After visiting the Barbie exhibit (that was probably more for us than the girls...actually it was definitely for us) we made our way to the playscape. The girls had a GREAT time! Here they are on the bulldozer.
Lola and I in the big bulldozer.
Luckily the playscape has areas that are age appropriate for our little ones. They had a great time playing with these little magnetic toys.
Erica and her little cutey, Annabelle!! LOVE love LOVE them!!
"Children at Play!!"
Of course Lola found the baby dolls. She loves carrying them around and rocking them like we rock her. A future babysitter-in-training :)
We tried the carousel. At first we were going to put the girls on the animals that we stationary. Lola definitely wasn't having it. This was at the end of our trip to the museum so both the girls were tired and probably a little scared of the animals. So we enjoyed the carousel on the bench.
