children's museum

Today we went to the Children's Museum in Acton, MA with our friends the Taylors.  Nolan and Bennett were due for a play date.  Bennett, who turned 15 months yesterday, likes to touch and feel and throw and eat everything he can get his hands on at this age.  We thought this would be the perfect place for him to do just that.

The place was not that big but it had a lot to do.  The first room was a mock train station.  Bennett and Nolan took turns disassembling the tracks.

Next door they had the ball room with all kinds of tubes for the balls to travel.  Bennett liked watching the balls go by.

He had a little snack before we headed to the next room with a giant chalkboard.

Bennett scribbled a little (the little lines above his head in the picture here) but mostly he tried to eat the chalk.

That was our cue to move on.  We stared at the "aquarium" for a bit before heading upstairs.

Upstairs we went to the jungle room.  Nolan and Bennett had fun going down the slide here.

This was Bennett's first experience with slides.  He liked it but it didn't keep his attention and we moved on to the room with a lego wall.  It also had a fort in it and daddy attempted puppet theater.  Bennett did not get it.

He did love the lego wall.  I would say this was Bennett's favorite thing to do here at the Children's Museum. 

He enjoyed ripping down the legos mommy put on the wall for him.

We skipped past the room set up as a diner because B and N are too little to do that yet but look forward to doing that someday.  I cannot wait for B to help around the kitchen.  The last room we went to was on the third floor.  It was the biggest of all the rooms and was decorated like a boat and the seashore surrounding it.

B and N liked it here.   They were able to run around more than in the other rooms.

Kind of looks like they are really looking over the edge of a boat on an ocean.

We wrapped it up after coming up here because the adults were hungry and exhausted from all the activity.  Looking forward to coming back here in the future.  There is so much more to explore.  It was a great way to spend the morning.