Museum fun

Ryan and I decided to take Shelby to the Tacoma Children's Museum today to get her outta the house and to have some fun romping around. We had never been there before and I must say I'm pretty impressed with that place! Best part...it's free! You can make a donation if you'd like though, which is totally worth it. This place had SO many fun things to do; Shelby was in heaven.

They had everything from climbing toys to slides to musical instruments to water tables! Shelby couldn't get enough of the slides and climbing toys for the first half of the visit.

Back and forth and back and forth...

Again and again and again!

It's made to look like a flying ship. The wings at top actually flap up and down!

We spent a LOT of time on this simple slide, but she loved it!

Next up, the music rooms! These rooms are full of instruments from around the world and the kids can bang, strum and smack all they want on them. It's pretty cool actually! It got pretty noisy in this room every so often.

There was this really neat vacuum tube wall that I think I was more interested in than Shelby was. I wanted to try it out but it was always so popular we hardly got a chance to! You'd stuff a scarf into the "start" block and watch it fly through a certain path of tubes. You could block paths and open new ones so there was always a new path for the scarfs to take. Then they'd fly out of the tubes at random places and the kids would try to catch them. So fun!

I want one in my house!

Seriously, so cool!

She couldn't really reach that well but we tried! 

There was a little black light and laser room which was pretty neat. We didn't spend much time there though. You got to take little laser lights and "color" on the white wall with them. It would disappear a few seconds later so you you could do it all over again.

The green is what showed up on the white board. 

And last but not least is the water area. We spent a lot of time here as well and thank goodness we ended up here last because Shelby came home pretty wet. They have little aprons you can wear while playing in the water but they were all way too big for Shelby so we just let her play without one.

There was a certain table that had little buttons to push which turned on different faucets. It would then fill up the bowl, which would then tip over and splash down on the table. Fun again!

Button button, who's got the button?

There was even a fun little "build your own tent" area in which you could sit and play under or color or just chill out under.

It was a fun filled early afternoon at the Children's Museum. And now if you'll excuse us, we've gotta go change this cute little one's bum into some dryer clothes for nap time.

Chase me up the stairs!