Staycation: Day 4

Today it was all about the museum - the Dallas Children's Museum to be exact. Wow did Matthew have fun. He was so into everything! We started the morning walking through the farm. He enjoyed petting all the animals and checking on them to make sure they were all ok in in their pens.

Matthew also got to harvest crops and collect eggs. This was really one of the highlights for Matthew as he just loves bags. The ability to carry around his food was so cool to him. He dropped the bag briefly to write the rocking horse, but quickly got the bag back, added a canteen and found yet another bag. Hmmmm - think we should get him a bag for Christmas.

From the farm, we went to play on the fire truck. Driving cars is a new interest for Matthew - I don't know if it is the fact that we've (mistakenly) allowed him in the front seat to "drive" our car on occasion. After a quick drive it was down the slide and off to the toddler backyard.

Here Matthew got to meet his new friend Lulu. Lulu was much more interested in him than Matthew in her, but he had fun. Matthew navigated "uneven tourain", built a tower and crawled through miniature houses. We even tried to get him to dress up like a frog with limited success.

After all this play we had to go grab lunch. Matthew chowed down on grilled cheese and blueberries. It was the first time we'd seen him really go after a sandwich. After lunch we pressed our luck and went back into the museum to do a few more things. We had to see the bubbles! While it wasn't what I expected, it was SO cool! We were able to get bubbles the size of beach balls created. Matthew was in total awe - and who wouldn't be whent he bubble is bigger than you!

After the bubbles, it was off to the creek. Matthew dawned a smock and played in the water with some pretty big kids, but that didn't detour him. He was right in there with his duck watching him float around the water table. The only thing we didn't get to do was dig for fossils, but at 2pm, Matthew was really getting tired. Hey, there is plenty to do next time!