A Trip to the Children's Museum

Lawrence and Azaria had gotten some coupons from school called Papa John's circle of rewards. One of the ones included was free admission the Phoenix Children's Museum. My friend Rachel was kind enough to give us their coupon so all the kids could get in for free..yeah. We had planned on going on Saturday before the tickets expired but Lawrence part way there said he didn't feel well so we turned around. Azaria was so sad we couldn't go that day she stayed out in the Van for about 30 minutes crying and pouting (yes I kept an eye on her while she was out there). Then a friend came along and climbed into the open door of the van to talk to her and she decided playing with her friend would be more fun then hanging out in the van.

Since the tickets were going to expire that Wednesday I took the kids out of school early on Tuesday so we could still go and enjoy some time together. They had so many fun things to do we almost didn't know where to start. First we started with the Whoosh, which is lots of tubes connect together with air flowing through them. You can feed scarves into them or light weight plastic balls and you can change their path to send them up different tubes. Then they shoot out at different spots and fall down the the ground. They even have a smaller concept of this with ping pong balls where the kids made their own configurations. It was great to watch all three of the kids work together to make it work. I got the be the official ping pong ball fetcher so they could keep feeding the machine.

Next we moved to the arts and crafts room where they were lots of choices. You could make snowflakes, play with playdough, make a sking penquin picture, play with playdough, paint, or make dream catchers. We didn't even have time to do them all but Lawrence and Azaria made several dream catchers and decided they would be a neat gift for Dad's birthday since they made them. I finally convinced them we should see what else there was to see. Though I think they would have all been content to spent the whole afternoon in the craft room.


Playing with the sand on the lighted table. They made textures, hills, wrote names and more. They even have beach chairs for the parents to relax in while you watch the kids play.






I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for ICE CREAM!!! The kids got busy pretenting to run their own ice cream stand. I got served with all sorts of colorful treats.









This kids watching as they send balls rolling down a obstacle course making things move while they zig zag back and forth to the bottom.











Lawrence seeing how it feels to drive a motorcycle. I'm not sure I'm ready to see my kids driving yet. Glad we have a few years before that all begins though Lawrence already asks how many years until he can start learning to drive.

I would have had to put way to many pictures in to show everything we did. We enjoyed the book corner, the noodle jungle, the grocery store, and microscopes too. Downstairs Lawrence and I bounced balls back and forth to each other while the girls zoomed around on plasma cars. After all that we headed over to Alan's office which was close by so the kids could see where he works. Laurel had been there before but not the other two. The kids can't wait to go to the Museum again, we had a blast!