Children’s Museum

Since YaYa and I were off last week, we decided to take Addy to the Children’s Museum of Houston.  In a word, it was awesome.

Seriously.  The other tab on my browser is for membership information.

Anyway the museum is 3 levels.  And the second floor is only for toddlers.  35 months and under grants you access to this foam padded, shoeless wonderland where adults (armed with DSLRs and camera phones) get to sit back and watch their kids explore different things.

At first Addy was a little apprehensive because she wasn’t really sure where we were and there were too many adults she didn’t know.  But she saw a ball pit and dove right in.

We proceeded to spend about 2 hours in the toddler area.  This included repeated visits to the little doors they have set up.  Addy is very obsessed with ringing doorbells and this was just her height.

Not only was it a door and doorbell, there was a knocker, a lock, and a porch light for them to turn on.  When you open the door (think Seven Dwarves house), it’s just a big mirror for them to see themselves.  She was nice enough to let other kids play with the doors when she was gone doing other things, but she kept coming back to them.  She was going back and forth between both of them for as long as she could. There were also slides, musical instruments, light bars, house displays, and a bunch of other things I forgot since I should have written this post forever ago when we actually went.

Then she went outside to drive cars on the patio.  But it wanted to be winter that day so the wind dramatically cut down on the amount of time we spent out there.  No matter, there were two more floors of the museum to discover.

I told Gabby the Children’s Museum was like when you go back to your elementary school and try to use the restroom.  You never remember it being that small. Ever.  Also, I was a child in the 80’s and there was not as many electronics as there are now.  This means when you go to the kiddie grocery store, it is now sponsored by HEB scan the barcodes so the price is displayed on a touchscreen.  They then pay for said groceries with money taken out of their Chase cards.  They get money by working at the news station, vet office, city council, or hospital (all with corporate sponsorship).  The grocery shopping was fun until Addy discovered that we could not pop open the box of popsicles and let her have at them right there.

The bottom floor is the inventorium or something that lets kids make inventions that they can then test out.  Want to build a paper cup flier then test it out?  You can do that!  Lots of paper and glue and scissors and tape.  And dad’s trying so hard to work on something and not be bothered by their children. Hilarity.   We learned that Addy was very into the screwdrivers.  I think this comes from watching Brownlee assemble various things around the house.  I don’t partake in such activities.

On this membership page they say we can book birthday parties there so….

we can basically avoid Chuck E Cheese for ever.

PHOTO DUMP!

(click on the one picture then the album will open up and you can see the thumbnails or click the picture again and scroll through on the large screen)

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