For Christmas we got a membership to the Houston Children’s Museum. Isaac had never been to the museum before since he wasn’t exactly old enough to do anything so it wasn’t worth the money, but I figured since we had the membership I’d introduce Isaac to the museum. And what better way for him to see how to fully enjoy the museum than going with Aunt Robyn and his cousins?
Answer: NONE.
Isaac slept a little long, so we got there after Robyn and the boys, but we wasted no time catching up with them. As soon as we got their Aunt Robyn wanted to see her nephew.
Isaac was so excited to see her and the boys that he pooped his pants. Thankfully, since it’s the CHILDREN’S Museum, the Men’s restroom had a changing table in it. One diaper change later and we were back at it. The nephews were doing what they do best, playing in the cars.
I didn’t get any of Barrett because he was always off somewhere else with Robyn making sure he didn’t get into any trouble. I got to chill with Hunter, mostly at either this ambulance or in the police car.
I don’t know how well you can see that, but another kid was “driving” when we got there so Hunter waited his turn by sitting in the back seat. He did a really great job waiting his turn and giving other kids a turn at driving the cars.
After a little while downstairs it was time to go upstairs to the Tot Spot. Now technically Barrett is too old to go in, but since Hunter is still young enough (for another year and a few months) he was allowed in under the condition that Robyn never let him out of sight. No problem with Barrett because he only wanted to do one thing really.
Meanwhile Hunter did what he knows best. He drove the other car, which brilliantly has two steering wheels. Hope they don’t want to go different directions!
When it was time for Hunter to share his spot in the car he wasn’t really thrilled about it, so Robyn and I put on our quick thinking cap and gave Hunter a job. Isaac had never seen the lights put in the wall before, maybe Hunter could show him how it was done? Well, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!
Isaac didn’t quite get it. He just wanted to put them in his mouth.
After watching the cousins play for a little bit, it was time for Isaac to go play in his little spot. There’s a place in the Tot Spot that has Bumbos and toys for little bitties like Isaac. He had a good time.
I didn’t really trust the toys around the floor since there was a sign saying something along the lines of “If you see a kid put a toy in their mouth put it in this bag” so I gave Isaac his Texas to play with while sitting in their Bumbo.
Then we did some standing/sitting on the mat they had. As you can see below , Isaac was getting pretty good at almost sitting on his own.
Shortly after this picture was taken I stood Isaac up to look at the pictures of babies that you see on the wheel behind him. Now Isaac LOVES other babies. He stares at them and smiles when we’re out, he smiles at the magical baby in the mirror and just loves everything about them. These babies, however, not so much. What’s awful about them is that all of the babies are sad or crying. None of them are smiling. Why would you do that?
After the Tot Spot it was back downstairs for a little while before everyone headed home for lunch and a nap. On the way out, however, we had to pass the cow, which Barrett and Hunter wanted to milk. Hunter wanted to ride it as well but that got squashed pretty quick.
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All in all it was a successful journey to the Museum. It should get even better as Isaac gets older and can play with more of the things in the Tot Spot. Pretty soon he’ll be walking around downstairs with the cousins playing in the cars.