Sunday, January 24, 2010

Tucson Children's Museum

It has been a horrible week weather-wise in Tucson. The temperature has been steadily dropping, rain has been flooding the streets, and the wind has been whipping around like crazy. We have had everything from Frost Warnings and Blizzard Conditions to Flash Flood Warnings and Tornado Watches. We have been trying to stay bundled up every time we leave the house.


Obviously a week like this means that the outdoor activities and park dates are all canceled. What's a mommy to do?!?!? Well one day this week we decided to go to the Tucson Children's Museum. Funnily enough, about 20 other mom's we know were there with their kids so Peter had some friends to play with.


Peter loved to "battle" with his older friend Elliot trying to get all the push pins to be pushed in. Any time you pushed them in they popped out the other side so they had a great time laughing and pushing them back and forth.


We also did a little shopping in the grocery store. Peter likes to get the corn to eat.


For some reason Peter has been obsessed with his winter boots from Iowa this past week. Since it was super wet and muddy this day I decided to just let him wear his boots to the museum. He's so funny in them. They are big and bulky and about a size too big so when he runs he stumbles and falls down a lot. I had to keep reminding him to slow down.


Peter's favorite room is the train room. It has a play train to climb through, a train that goes around the top of the room, and a play train set. He will stay stuck to the train set for hours if I let him.


The underwater part is fun too. John and Peter liked to play with the buttons in the submarine.


Peter is still somewhat apprehensive of the dinosaurs. They have several that are "life sized". Some visits he goes right up to them (like this picture from earlier this month) but other times he turns and runs the other way. It is fun to ask Peter "What does a dinosaur say??" He will look at you, take a deep breath, and let out a big "RRRRRROOOOARRRRRRR!!!!!"


After several boring days stuck inside at home it was really nice to get out. We were sad when the alarm on my phone went off to say that our parking meter was about to expire. Peter didn't want to leave yet.


He had such a great time playing with his friends at the museum!

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