The Children's Museum

Today we went to the Indianapolis Children's Museum with some friends from our MOPS group. We have been a few times before, but in the past it has seemed like the kids were too young or too small to enjoy everything. This time though, they had a blast! Both Hannah and Jack walked almost the entire time, and Sarah was crying so I had her in the sling and pushed the empty double stroller - at least it was a handy place to store our coats! There is a new Lego exhibit that fascinated the children. Above you can see them checking out a giant Lego dragon.

"My work here is done."

Another exhibit features comic book stuff that went over Hannah and Jack's heads, but they did have fun getting into the comic book scenes like this taxi cab.
The highlight of the day was the dinosaur exhibit. Jack loved it, and Hannah started out liking it. We have a few books about dinosaurs and fossils, so it was neat for the kids to see real fossils. There is, however, an audio loop in the exhibit that includes some thunder noises and roaring (presumably what the T Rex would sound like if it was ripping up the Triceratops in real life, instead of in skeletal form) at which point Hannah got completely spooked and ran out screaming. Tonight at dinner she told Josh "I didn't like that dinosaur roaring, Daddy, I FREAKED OUT!!!!"

We didn't leave until after 1pm, and Jack was asleep before the van door closed. Hannah stayed awake recounting her favorite parts of the museum, but when we got home she slept for two hours!