A Day of Play

Dan took the day off from work yesterday and the five of us drove up to the Strong National Museum of Play to meet Grandma, Grandpa and Emma there.

Cora got to ride around in her stroller for the first time ever. (She was so tiny in it that we had to take off the tray so she could see while we were pushing her around!)

The kids had a lot of fun playing the "pipe organ",
checking out the books in the book nook,

playing with the Sesame Street puppets,
(and watching themselves on the screen down below as they played)

shopping at a pint-sized Wegmans,
(which is one of Emma's favorite things about the Museum!)
playing with Lego blocks,

climbing in Big Bird's nest with Grandpa,

"riding" in the Sesame Street taxi with Elmo and Cookie Monster,

and best of all, riding on the train.

There was an entire room with a castle/Lego theme too...

where the kids all found some dress up clothes and pretended to be knights and dragons.

The adults loved seeing all the displays built entirely out of Legos... very neat!

I had showed the boys pictures from our first trip to the Museum and they were looking forward to building this archway again. (And, of course, "booming it down"!)

In the sound studio, Aiden sang "Do, Re, Mi" for us all into the microphone and had fun pushing buttons for sound effects.
Cora slept...
and woke up... and was very happy the entire time we were there.

After a treat of ice cream, Dan and Grandma went with Seth, Aiden and Emma on the carousel.

We can't wait to go again!