The first stop was some car thing that didn't work out so well...too advanced for Mommy. So, we ended up going into the face painting area. Joshua did NOT want his face painted, and wiped off the red paint that Miss Julie put on his cheeks, making him look like he had blush on. She put a pumpkin on herself (she's much more talented than I am at such things) and Caleb ended up with an orange dot on his cheek that I cleaned off before we left that area.
The next stop was sorting eggs...a big hit with the Bean! The chickens lay the eggs, and as they come down you put the good ones in the carton and the bad ones (the plastic ones that had a marker making a crack) into the hole for 'bad eggs.' I think Joshua could have stayed there most of the day, but his friend Jude was off and running the grocery store!
Next we followed Jude into the grocery store. Jude & Joshua both cracked me up in there. Jude was running the cash register. Since he's not used to manually entering the numbers, he held any item up that was given to him to the register itself and said "Beep!" like he's heard at the checkouts. So sharp! 
Joshua immediately went and stocked his basket full of bread and desserts...hmmm...what does that say about our diet???
He added healthier items later. The cool thing is that this place has fun things for older kids (there's a grocery shopping list they can try and the items are priced so they can add things up, etc.) but it was just as fun for the little kids to go shopping, make sandwiches and run the register. For Jude, everything was $2.
Next, we left to go to the Land of Make Believe. There were tons of dress up costumes, finger puppets, and much more to look at! A little girl gave Julie & me fake flowers to smell - she was adorable. We all got dressed up, except for Caleb who was napping.
Joshua was a dinosaur. Julie put the costume on him, and he left it on until I helped him remove it. I was impressed! Jude was a firefighter, I was some sort of dragon, Julie was a court jester??? and I forget what hat little Kate put on.
Jude & Joshua enjoyed the puppet show put on by Miss Julie.
Next, Jude put together blocks for his daddy, the architect. Joshua & I went back to that station later so he could put them together. He wasn't thrilled when his building collapsed.
He did find a toy that reminded me of my little "Light Bright" when I was little. He loved putting these sticks in the holes that glowed. Again, I think he could have stayed there for hours. But we pressed on to see what else was around the corner.
Next we went to the land of recycling. This was a little over the Bean's head, but he enjoyed some of the different things the toys did.
His one true passion there was the germs. This little machine explained why it's important to scrub your hands, and you hit the buttons to make the soap knock out the germs. He did a great job, and literally threw a fit when I made him leave this station. Thus, it was time to go.
1 comment:
it seems to me that there is way to much fun going on up there! Do you run every day? Glad to see that fun is happening as we all could use more fun, don't you think? Well carry on the fun,we are getting ready for some ourselves.
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