Visiting the Children's Museum

Yesterday we had a playdate at the Zoo, the morning was beautiful but 5 minutes after we got in the gate it started to rain so we left the zoo and headed to the Children's Museum, good thing we have memberships at both places. On this trip we didn't even enter the toddler area. We stayed downstairs and played with all the "big kid stuff" In this first picture Chance is playing with a kaleidoscope he turned the handles on each side while looking through the middle. He was pretty impressed.
In the second picture he is getting measured to see how tall he is. If you stand still on the metal circle little waves come down through the air and tell you how tall you are. Chance is 3 feet 4 inches tall.

There is a special exhibit at the Children's Museum right now about kids with disabilities and all the different ways you can learn and do things. There was a section with a wheel chair for you to get in then wheel yourself up the ramp through the door around the room and back down the ramp. Sorry this picture isn't very good. Chance did a great job he didn't need any help at all once I showed him how to make it move.

Now the above picture needs a little explaining but it's really pretty cool. There is a area with two seats at one table, on each side of the table there is a little box with blocks in it, each side has the exact same kind of blocks. Then there is a curtain in the middle of the table. What you are supposed to do is close the curtain then set up your blocks and tell the person on the other side what your blocks look like, then they are supposed to setup their blocks to match your only based on what you say and not seeing. Then you move the curtain to see if your blocks match. Well, first I set up my blocks telling Chance what to do then when we moved the curtain he had set up his blocks the same way as mine. Then we closed the curtain again and he put out his blocks telling me what he was doing so I could set up my blocks and when we moved the curtain this picture is what it looked like (mine closer his farther). He did an excellent job listening to my direction and giving direction to me so our blocks matched.