It’s your day to do whatever you please. You may explore the Children’s Museum at your snail like pace and I promise not to wipe your hands down with hand sanitizer in between exhibits. Oh look a windowsill to sit on near the ticket line. You could very well spend another ten more minutes sitting on it but didn’t you want to see what was inside the museum? Oh you don’t?
Now we have made it inside the museum and are looking at the first exhibit of turtles. Sort of like the kind you would see in the pet store. Do you remember the last time you were here and you couldn’t even walk yet? Speaking of walking..
Ah the construction zone. A little boy’s dream room of car tracks, dress up construction clothes, hard hats, and a tunnel that looks like a bunch of tires. There you go crawling through the tunnel! Look at you collecting ramps and bridges for the cars to drive over. You want to sit in the front loader? Sure! Whatever that is!
That sure looks as exciting as the windowsill was to sit in. Did you know this museum has three floors?
Playing the Pan at Boston Black.. A City Connects. Petting a real-to-you Water Buffalo at the Japanese House. Sitting in a car with a surprised look on your face at the working radio in the Playspace. Coloring on an easel in the Art Gallery. Filling your shopping basket with limes, lemons, eggs, and potatoes at the pretend grocery store. Moving around the giant chess pieces at The Common. Playing the tubes just like Blue Man Group in the airplay exhibit.
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Cheerfully splashing in a water puddle under a Caution Wet Floor sign in a room full of toy boats and water.
Out comes the travel sized Purell from my pocket. There was human hair in the puddle. ” You give me one of your happiest smiles, softening my germ phobic heart. “Would you like to go see the turtles again instead?”
You would be delighted to.
This reminded me of a Dr. Seuss book, with the tone that it was written. There were even rhyming parts. I call it "Oh the Places Matthew Will Go"!
ReplyDeleteThat was a good story and sounds like Matt had such a good time, his head will be filled with so much to think about his adventure that day!
ReplyDeleteI guess we are both tapping into the same kinetic blogging energy. I'll look forward to reading the other side of the playgroup tale, just guessing from your title.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to tell you that Matthew will pick up the pace a bit as he gets older, and I'm certain that's true, but I just haven't gotten there yet. I remember hating parking lots for a time in the twos when Josh couldn't walk away from a curb of any sort without walking along it over and over again. God forbid it was raining or 102 degrees.