Museum with Friends

Today was a fun, special day for me & Natalie. While Woody watched Nicole (thanks, Honey!), we went with a group of friends to a children's museum not too far away. We had been here before, and it was great to see how much more she could do here. And, what was her favorites this time. She ran straight for the "General Store." Unfortunately, there was an entire school grade (or two, I couldn't tell!) there, so it was jam packed when we got there. There were no carts to use, only a basket at first. And, it was like Wal-Mart in that the kids were rushing to get certain items first. Some kids had the "checkout" lanes monopolized, so we went to other exhibits that weren't so popular at first.

Natalie enjoyed dressing up like a firewoman and playing with the siren and bell for a while. The other friends we were with it was hard to keep up with them at first because there were so many elementary kids milling about.

Then, we played in the studio for a while. I didn't get a good picture here.

She played with the puppets for a while, but there were only 2 puppets this time!

She enjoyed dressing up like a princess by herself. There weren't as many outfits this time either. Must be getting some more in!

The bubble room is always popular. The other kids would come by and try to pop the bubbles!

This was one time I really remember the last time she wasn't able to pull up the loop by herself on the bubble. This time she could! She enjoyed this!

Then, we went to the cafe where we stayed for a while. Was she making Mommy a delicious hamburger plate? Using that good old microwave instead of the stove I see!

Nope, that hamburger was for her!

I had to take a picture of her "cleaning up" the plate. Maybe we can do this at home, huh!?

Oh, yea, here's Mommy some food...in a delicious pot...

She really loved climbing in between the levels this time. I remember her not being able to climb up one step...

Now she climbs to the top and rings the bell!

She got together with her friends finally on the climbing thing and also they did a very short play. Mostly was arguing about who was playing which character. Natalie insisted that she was the princess. But, JoJo didn't want to be the prince, even though she tried to dance with him to encourage him to do that!

We then were all ready for some food. We had to walk a few blocks down to a restaurant. Natalie wanted to sit with her friends, which was fine. I actually didn't have to help feed an infant or her. It was strange just to eat my own food and talk with grownups!

Walking back holding hands with some of the kids. She is here with Ashton, Kendall, and JoJo. The walk back was upwards, which meant I was pretty much dragging them at this point. But, we made it back safely!

The group playing together on the fire engine. After lunch seemed the time to come, as there were a LOT less kids there and they could stay together.

Sitting on the throne with Kyle and Kade. She went in the craft room for a little while, then she wanted to go back to the other exhibits.

Back to the store, where there were no other kids this time! She had her own cart and filled it up. Ashton played the cashier one time...

And, then let her play the next!

After this, it was pretty much time to go home. So, we went back to the car and stopped to get a milkshake to finish off our special time.