I had lunch and dinner plans with friends today that were both on the north side of town. I didn't figure trekking across town twice in one day was all that fun, so I decided to find a fun place to hang out and kill some time with the little guys after lunch. I vaguely remembered there being a Houston science museum extension in the Woodlands mall, so I googled it and set off to find it. Well somehow I wasn't paying attention and ended up at a completely different children's museum.
An awesome children's museum!!
And since it was a weekday, it wasn't crowded at all. The boys were so excited to have the awesome fire truck all to themselves!
Thomas was most excited about the lights that would turn and flash on the top of the truck. It didn't make the fire truck noises, but the two of them were more than happy to provide the soundtrack for their fire-fighting adventures.
There was even a fire pole to slide down! Thomas was obviously not too sure about it, but after I talked him into trying it, he was all about it! Henry was not at all interested in trying to grab the pole across the gap - in his defense, he doesn't have quite the reach of his older brother..
The museum even had their absolute favorite play area - a grocery store! This register didn't have a moving conveyor belt, but it did make the scanning "beep" if you passed something in front of the sensor. That was clearly Henry's favorite part!
Of course, Thomas was all about the train table! Henry was mostly just causing derailments and driving his brother crazy trying to push Thomas' trains off the tracks.
Henry got bored that Thomas wasn't playing train demolition derby with him and wandered off. There was a ball on the floor by the train track and Henry grabbed it, walked around the wall of marble pipes and immediately put it on the Bernoulli blower. I was impressed, we hadn't looked at this table at all and he knew just what to do. Either he's a genius or we go to * a lot* of museums...!
After we had been there a while, Henry started to get pretty tired - no real surprise as hard as they were playing! He was doing the run away and hide toddler business, so I took him over to the most open area to try and keep an eye on him. Sine he just wanted to sit, I made him this awesome train out of the big foamy blocks. He seemed pretty happy with it - but Thomas, my train lover, was not impressed. He started knocking it down as soon as I finished it.
So rude!
So we ended up making this spaghetti wall monster of his own creation. Henry rotated between helping us and sitting in the truck in the background. For some reason, he liked sitting in the driver's seat chilling. At this point, I figured they could do whatever made them happy! In the end they ran out of energy in time to go meet Nonni & Grandpa on their drive past us to Galveston. Wore them out, then gave them ice cream - they were snoozing in no time. Winning! :)