The Seattle Children's Museum

We decided to take Andrew to the Seattle Children's Museum on Saturday. He had a BLAST! We were in there for 3 1/2 hours and Andrew would have stayed longer. He kept finding things he wanted to go back and do again on the way out. We went to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory afterwards and when we left he said he wanted to go back to the Museum. We told him it was dark and it was closed, he argued with us for a while in the car. When he woke up the next morning he said he wanted to go back to the Museum instead of church. I guess we'll have to go back again.

(We definitley got more for our money than at the Tacoma Children's Museum. There isn't as much for younger kids to do at the Tacoma museum, and the Seattle museum is 22,000 square feet!!)

Andrew loved this bus/van!! It was part of the global village that had a motorbike and a Korean subway car and Japanese houses they could go in.

(I did get a little frustrated with the older kids bossing around the younger kids and pushing them out of the way, Andrew just stands there like what did I do.)

Riding the subway car

The motorbike, except Andrew didn't want to sit on the actual bike seat, he just wanted to ride on the seat next to it.

Andrew stirring and cooking in one of the houses

This was in cog city where the kids could push buttons to make water do stuff and use plastic golf balls to send through things.

Painting, his favorite thing! He was very nice about sharing with another girl

He concentrates hard

They also have a forest area where the kids can crawl through logs and climb on things and there were rocks to lift up and look at the (fake) bugs and creatures underneath.

There was also an REI tent set up that the kids could play in and sleeping bags. Andrew pretended to lay down and go to sleep, mommy would have liked to take a nap in there, I was tired after a long day of playing.

Crawling through the nurse log

In the tent with daddy too

Climbing through the whale

Discovery bay (for birth to 3 years old) was right up his alley. He didn't want to play in the water table though, odd little boy.

Going down the slide, cautiously however

There was a HUGE Curious George exhibit with lots of things to do

Going down Curious George's rocket ship slide

Bending down to give Curious George a hug

2 little monkeys! :)

Driving a big fire truck

There was a grocery store and he drove the cart around collecting food and then went to the counter to check out. We would pretend to scan it and he says 'beep, beep.' Ver cute! The grocery store is one of his favorite places to go at home.

There was also a construction are where you could build things but he and daddy mostly just spun wingnuts and played with stuff that someone else had built

All in all it was a really fun day! (Even though it was long) We'll have to go back sometime. (I wish it wasn't so far away and we didn't have to pay for parking! Oh well.