Thursday, October 15, 2009

Children’s Museum of Phoenix

On Monday we took the kids to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix. They are remodeling and there wasn’t much on the first floor. The kids loved the tricycle and Frank pushed Sabrina on a ride for little ones.

When we went upstairs there was an awesome play area for 3 and under. We got kicked out for bringing Alex with us, what were we supposed to do with him? We went as a family, but we couldn’t stay together if Sabrina was going to get to play. You would think that a children’s museum would realize parents have kids of varying ages and would have a place where the older kids could be supervised while the babies play. I guess what really bugged me was the worker’s attitude. She was plain rude.

We then went to the next section, which was a grocery store and a restaurant. I was glad that these areas had a tiny corner for babies. Alex played for a while then he moved on to the next section; the sound room. Sabrina was in the baby section surrounded by toys, but she kept trying to take the puzzle pieces that an older toddler had.

Next was a “forest” of swimming pool noodles hanging from the ceiling. Then came a cactus with spiders that jumped out. Then we moved on the reading corner.

Alex’s favorite part was the car ramp. They had made cars from PCV pipe and roller skate wheels and the kids got to roll them down a racetrack. Alex stayed for quite a while so I had Frank take Sabrina back to the baby section with instructions to take pictures. Of course I wanted to watch her play and explore, but I didn’t want to see the rude worker again. Finally I dragged Alex away from the cars and let him serve me ice cream at the ice cream stand, (I plan to make some of these foam comes and get some balls to go with them). Then we met back up with Frank and left.

Except for the rude employee we all had a good time.

Marie-Anne

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