Children's Museum

Yesterday we took our newly turned 2 year old to the Children's Museum in Lynchburg. She had such a good time exploring that we did get a membership, even though it takes just over an hour to get there.

They have a farm section where you can "pick corn," play with toy animals in a barn, ride rocking horses, milk a cow and crawl through an ant farm underground. There was cardio section where you could learn all about the heart and walk through models of each chamber. There was a raceway space where you could race golfballs down different tracks. There was science section where you could investigate the cause and effect of golf balls and hairdryers. There was a section upstairs devoted to the colonization of Virginia with a huge model river with real water that the kids could play in. There was an indoor zipline, various climbing tunnels and slides that ran from floor to floor of the entire building, an exhibit all about birds, and an astronomy tower. There was puppet play, a stage where you could get your jam on, and the best part of the ENTIRE thing for Marley, a room where you could paint on the glass walls! There was A LOT for her to do and she loved every minute of it.

Here she is playing with the farm animals. Crawling through the ant farm
And a whole section devoted to different cultures...here I think they were playing with the different types of balls from either Ancient Greece or Egypt.

And you know, what's a Children's Museum without a seesaw right in the middle of an exhibit?!

I know she though we were crazy when we told her this was a heart. She's used to the ones that people draw for her on paper or on the trampoline at gymnastics.

The stairs between each level lit up as you stepped on them. She thought that was fun!

Here we are making "stained glass" out of construction paper and celophane.

Marley and Daddy at the top of the astronomy tower (it actually has an observation deck)
We can't wait to go back! And bring Mia!