Fun with M, T, and N

My best friend M* and her family traveled up to Utah to spend Christmas with her husbands family and thankfully we were able to get together a few days later before they drove back home to Arizona.

We decided to take her cuties to The Museum of Natural Curiosity at Thanksgiving Point,

(*M has asked that for privacy reasons I do not give their names online.) 

Me and some of my very very favorite people

If you are not familiar with the museum it is geared for children of all ages to come and explore, play, and experience in a very hands on interactive environment.  It does not matter the age; infant to adult; there is some for everyone.  Every activity is fun play and scientific.  For older children, it is a way they can experiance science principles hands on.  For younger children the same exhibits are a way they can play and learn with out being told not to touch.

In the Waterworks room:

They had a water table that actually had infant and toddler chairs built right in.  The child can sit in the water without getting wet (kind of).

T loved filling up the watering can and pouring it into the spinner.

The earthquake simulator had building blocks that you could use to build a house and then with the push of a button rattle the whole thing down.  T at only 2 years old just loved the feel of the rubber 'ground' and the shaking.  At one point he stuck his head into the bin as it was shaking just to feel it.

Learning about wind power.  We were able to build our own windmill with different shaped arms and then with the push of a button turn the air on and watch it spin,

I think he likes it.

This station let you press different buttons creating a fountain from multiple corners.  There was even a function that you could record your pattern and it would play it back to you.  T just liked seeing the water shoot up each time he pressed the buttons.

Playing with N in the Rain-forest room.  After an unfortunate clothing disaster M and I switched kiddos and I got to spend some one on one time with this little cutie in the toddler section.  There were plastic balls and mirrors that captivated her attention.  (So did the camera, she is definatly not camera shy).

An attempt at a mirror selfie.  

Next T and I showed M and N to the waterworks room.  I was sure that N would love the water-table as much as T had earlier.  And she did.  It was very hard to capture her laughs and squeals on camera and she was mostly splashing the water right into her face but I did get a few photos.

I bet that she just loves her bath time.

T taking a second run at the earthquake table.

In the Innovation Gallery most of the exhibits were a little over a 2 year-olds understanding but he absolutely loved spinning the balls around in this tornado funnel.  He probably spent about 10 minutes here before we decided we should check out the next room.

Next we explored Kidopolis, which is a fully outfitted kid town complete with movie house, library, jail, train station, laundry mat, magic show house and more.  T dressed up as a pirate including a hook and a parrot at the movie house.

He was a conductor on a train.

Played Vet at the Animal hospital.  He loved the stethascope and listened to his heart, my heart and even walked up to a random girl in the room to listen to her heart.  I think we may have a Dr in the making....

Lastly, M and T looking a lizard and snake.  Right after I took this picture the lizard started walking towards T and T ended up running away from it and refused to go back and look at it.

After several hours and even though there was more that we could have explored and played with it was lunch/nap time for both of the little ones so we had to call it a day.  But it was a fun day that I will not forget and I cannot wait until I can play with my favorite little buddies again.

I love you all.  Thank you for spending a wonderful day with me.