children's museum

the other weekend (actually, it's been almost a month now) we had some visitors! shane and stef beer brought their fam and came to stay with us for a couple nights. it was very fun to catch up with them and get to know the kiddos a little better! one of the activities for the weekend was a visit to the children's museum, which we haven't been to since we've lived in Indy, and I actually can't remember the last time I visited. overall, we were very impressed with the museum and will definitely look into getting a membership once Beck's old enough to really enjoy it...

Liv and Beck having fun playing in the water... this is one of the few things I remembered doing at the Children's museum when I was a kid and I Loved it! there's something about playing with water that's so fun...

Gav was the perfect age for enjoying the museum and could have stayed and played at every exhibit for much longer than time allowed! his favorite was the dinosaurs, so maybe that's the exhibit we can look forward to spending the most time in with Beck? it seems to me that liking dinosaurs is a pretty common little boy thing...

taking his first "tractor ride"... we thought this one looked like a CAT truck. don't worry Beck, I'm sure one day dad will take you to work and you'll get to sit on the real thing!

Beck found one thing he could do! crawl around in the "under 2" area.. which is still too broad of an age range if you ask me. 2 year olds can run right over babies, and I felt like he was still in the way of the 'older' kids... so really they need an "under 1" or "can't yet walk" area. :)

I was personally quite impressed with this glass sculpture which is 3 stories tall I believe. a few facts: the glass pieces were actually made in Seattle and shipped to Indy, where they were then put on a stand with prongs coming out of it (for the glass tubes to slide onto). any ideas for how much it weighs?? .... how about 18,000 lbs!