Children's Museum visit

On Monday, Lauren and I finally cashed in her gift certificate from Grandma and Grandpa for the Hands On Children's Museum in Olympia. We have a year long membership that I'm sure will come in handy! She loved this place as you will see by the pictures.

The first 20 minutes we didn't leave the first exhibit 15 feet from the front door. I guess she didn't realize how much other stuff there was to see! It was a delivery truck that even had a fake hose, bucket and sponge to wash it!

Then it was off to gather eggs from the hen house. She had an entire basket and all mommy kept thinking was "the more we take out the more we have to put back!" But fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how you look at it), the basket was "stolen" by some other little kid but Lauren was too busy to notice!

Lauren played in the ambulance and kitchen....but then she spotted the train table!

They even had buttons with noises piped in like "all aboard" and train noises. Once Lauren found those....it was all about the noise!

I finally got her to venture over to the other side of the museum where there dress up clothes, puppets and a veterinarian station. She was all about taking center stage and singing....which I have NO idea what she was singing but she was an enthusiastic singer!

Being very cheesy when someone would hit the applause button! She likes attention! Imagine that.

We went to the "build it" section where they had this giant wall of those pin-like things you can make designs. Lauren was all about her hand print as seen in the next picture.

From the other side....she'd laugh when I'd put then back to "normal".

Gotta make sure you have a helmet when in a construction zone.

Driving the dump truck.

She had a great time. We had been there 1.5 hours and I wanted to get home to watch the football game. It was late and Jake was already off work so I told Lauren, "Let's go home and see daddy!" It typically works....but not this time! She screamed as I carried her out of the building. She doesn't understand the saying "we'll be back" yet! We didn't even make it to one of the exhibits.

Found out they have a preschool there...wouldn't that be a kick! Plus it's only 2 blocks from Jake's office. They are building a brand new fantastic facility closer to the waterfront. It's suppose to be ready in 2012, we can't wait!