Discovery Gateway

I wish I had pictures from this but Griffin's milk spilled on the camera so it wouldn't work :( Today we went with the Homeschooling the littles group to the new Discovery Gateway (formerly the Children's Museum). It was really nice but not as big as I was expecting. BOTH boys had a really good time though. We hit the 'Garden' first. It was a giant beehive filled with different tubes and such that you could drop big plastic balls down and gadgets to turn them up to the ceiling and put in other tubes and ones that made sounds. Tristan LOVED this area, as did Griffin. Tristan loved figuring out the different machines and how they worked and also loved watching the balls go down the tubes and seeing where they come out at. Griffin even climbed up ALL the stairs so he could put balls in too.

Next we hit the Kid's Eye View which is a small town of stores and such that are kid size. Tristan's favorite part of that was the construction area where he could build with foam blocks and put them on the left and turn the crank to take them up the platform. He also enjoyed putting blocks down the chute too.

We briefly stopped in the little house and passed quickly past the grocery store to hit the water play area. Tristan could have stayed there all day. He LOVES water and with all the machines to do differnt things and the ping pong balls and rubber duckies. He was in heaven. Griffin had fun with it too just watching the other kids play. After this we played in a fake car for a few minutes, climbed through a beaver dam and Griffin rocked on a little dog rocking horse thing. We also picked some veggies and Tristan got to sit on a fake horse.

Next we headed up stairs but most of it was for older kids. We did a little coloring but the big hit was outside.. a real life flight helicopter! We didn't get to see too much of it because there were so many kids but Tristan put on his Life Flight Pilot vest and got to sit in the front and back of the helicopter for a few minutes.

After that we headed back downstairs to play in the Garden for a little longer before leaving. The boys were OUT cold before we even got out of the parking area LOL

That night we started our new theme of jungles. Tristan looked at a few books with jungle animals in it and knew most the animals already. He was mostly looking for monkies but was excited to find geckos, iguanas and frogs too! ~ribbit ribbit~