All summer we have been getting together for our "play days." I admit that I haven't been the best at getting many pictures taken. I think most of that has to do with having a toddler than no longer will sit in a stroller and insists on running around and seeing everything himself. With 3 kids and only 2 hands, I don't get much time to whip out my camera or phone.
Luckily I had some time to do it when we visited the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum last week. Our first stop was in the "Tinkering" exhibit they had set up where the kids could discover and play with all sorts of things. Tate and Libby spent time at the color/shape block table.
Tate of course grabbed all the green triangles right off the bat and didn't even look at any of the others.
Zach and Hailey spent most of their time at the sand table. They had a turntable that would spin and you could dump sand on it and make all sorts of shapes and designs with different tools.
They were having a blast!
We also took time to build some structures with some wood blocks. Papa would have been proud!
Tate was really concentrating on his work, not sure what he was building, but he was really into it.
After we finished that exhibit, we went into the Dinosaur Museum. I thought for sure Tate would be afraid of all the dinosaur bones and such, but he didn't seem to be afraid at all. Here are "most" of the kids (Elsee and Seton were sleeping in their strollers) in front of the big Brontosaurus skeleton. It's amazing to think of how big those animals were!
And here they are in front of another exhibit - I think this was the quarry exhibit where they talked about recovering the bones from the ground. Elsee woke up and was in the picture this time!
Of course we had to spend some time at the erosion table. I think this was Tate's first time actually playing in the water, I think the last time we went to the Dinosaur Museum, he was just a baby!
Hailey was doing something with all that sand, who knows what, but she was having a great time.
Zach is the only one I could get to actually look at me long enough to get a good picture. Even though he's getting older, he still enjoys the erosion table too!
How is it that no one was afraid of this exhibit? I thought both Tate and Libby would run screaming from the room, but not only were they not afraid, they walked straight up there and stood for a picture. Zach and Hailey are giving us their best "raaarrrr!" faces.
Tate and Libby just hung out and didn't seem to mind that the likeness of a giant bloody-mouthed shark was just a few feet behind them. We finally had to call them to move on when the time came - some things never cease to amaze me.
And last, but not least, the sand pits. Here the kids are able to go into the sand boxes and uncover dinosaur bones that they have buried there. They love this and although the air is filled with dust, it's one of the fun places we have to stop and play at.
Tate wasn't loving the sand, so he stood on the bench by me and watched his brother and sister do the digging. He kept talking to them and telling them what to do next. Guess he's working on his supervising skills.
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