Children's Museum

A while back, I snagged a groupon for The Children's Museum.  It was a good price and covered 4/5's of the family.  We held on to it... until this week.  Monday afternoon, the entire family headed to the museum for some family fun.  It was the prefect time to go, as it turned out that the museum was virtually empty.  This is very unique, since the museum is typically a crazy place to be.  Here are some pictures of the things we did.

 We started on the 3rd floor and, after going through the noodle maze, we decided to do some grocery shopping.

 Instead of "purchasing" cheese, Oliver decided to just be cheesy.  Look at that smile.

 Even dad got involved with the shopping experience.

 Noelle made me smile.  Apparently she was looking past the packaging and (in her mind) was buying the items actually in the bottles.  She came over to me and showed me all the buttons and sparkling things she had bought.  It made me smile.

 Next, we decided to race some cars.

 Preston hung out with me while I watched the kids have fun and retrieved their cars for them.

 Speaking of racing cars...  who do you think will win this race?

 All 4 of my kids wanted in on the race car action.  

 Then it was time to go to the bike wash.  Poor Oliver really wanted to ride the one with the trailer.  He could ride it just fine until he got to the bumpy floor.  Then he was just stuck.

 Daddy decided to ride in the trailer, and even took turn peddling for Oliver.  It was a lot of fun.

The kids did a lot of other things at the museum as well, but those were our favorites.  I'm so glad we went, and that it was so vacant.  We had such a great time.  We were also thankful that Brandon took the day off and was able to go with us. He had been out of town for 4 days and we had really missed him.