So, Collin had his first field trip of the year this week. It was supposed to be his second but the pumpkin patch farm visit got rained out this year. Can you believe that a farm visit got RAINED out in California! The farm was flooded. Yes folks, flooded! We were saddened.
The Kidspace Children's Museum made up for it, despite it being in Pasadena. Pasadena is a great city and really beautiful but it's also not close and not easy to get to. It's a big commitment to take an entire school out there. The kids loved it.
It's kind of hard not to love a museum that let's you pretend you are a bug, right? It's like a big park. They had a blast.
Daddy, if only you'd left this weekend instead of last weekend and you could've been with us to see your boy climb a rock wall. you would've been so proud. He made it right to the tip-top immediately and promptly fell right off, flat on his butt. The whole crowd of parents did the gasping shock thing and he jumped up in TA-DA stance and burst out laughing as if he thought it was the most hilarious thing in the world that anyone should think it scary that he should fall and then he climbed right back up again. That's my boy. Of course, then he promptly continued to fall repeatedly hoping for more attention.
Anyone in the area really should consider checking this place out. It was really fun. It was all hands on and the kids could play on everything. There was lots of climbing and jumping and playing. The structures were all pretty adult accessible too, so you could easily get in there with your kids.
They did a little interactive show with the kids at the very end that Collin could've lived without because he would've rather continued playing on his own with the exhibits but it was still pretty good. To be honest, I think that the show was a let down for a lot of the kids because they do such a good job with music lessons at their school every day that the "music" they tried to do at the museum was sort of like "uh, why can't we go play?"
Collin was just bummed that the other kids got sticks to play with and he got a shaker egg. I felt bad for him. But, on the other hand, I was so proud to see that his friend, without prompting, kept switching with him when she saw he was sad. She kept letting him use her sticks and alternating with his egg. It is just that kind of sweetness that I love seeing at this school. They really learn to take care of each other. The environment warms my heart.
They all painted a huge picture as a class as an end-of-day project which made me grateful that I don't have the job as one of those museum people who runs these type of projects. About a hundred preschoolers and and uncountable number of paint bottles. No thank you. I'll just go ahead and stand back and take pictures and silently judge. It was a cute idea and the kids liked it.
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