DuPage Childrens Museum and Walk

We've had a VERY mild winter here in Chicago, so far.  Since the beginning of winter we've had 1 minimal dusting of snow, totaling roughly 2 inches.  Today it was approaching 60 degrees outside.  Yup, you read that right.  60! 

It always seems the day's go by faster if I'm out and about, doing something with the kids, whether it's going to the Zoo, Monkey Biz, Grounds for Hope, the Park, on Walks, etc.

Today, I took the kiddos to the DuPage Childrens Museum in the morning and we went on a nice LONG walk outside this afternoon.

The Museum was awesome and not your typical stuffy museum.  It was very interactive.  They had a ton of different exhibits, water, bubbles, air, trains, magnets, tubes, pipes, an art studio, music room, mirror room, glow in the dark exhibit, shadows, pegs, a workshop, wind tunnel, reading, bridges, and an area on each floor called "young explorers" for kids up to 24 months old. 

We had a blast and I can't wait to go back.  You can click here to check out the museum.

On our long walk, we went around 2 different blocks in our neighborhood, Mikey picked up just about every stick, inspected every rock on the sidewalk and played in all the dirt that collected inbetween the slabs of concrete on the sidewalks.  We had a lot of fun.  It was soooo nice outside.  Katie slept almost the whole time in the stroller.  We also waved at all the buses going down the road and Mikey said "hi" to everyone we encountered on our walk. 

One of our neighbors has his own lawn service business and has a lot of snow blowers and lawn mowers in his garage and drive way.  As we were walking past he was teaching one of his customers how to use the snow blower and Mikey stood there for 10 minutes just watching.  He was in heaven!  He would have watched longer if I'd let him.  We also saw and old man pushing his wife in a wheelchair on the side walk and Mikey said "Hi" and then pointed at the women in the wheelchair and said "Mommy."  She got a laugh and said she hasn't been called that in decades.

He's going through this phase right now where all women are Mommy's and all males are Daddy's.  It's pretty cute!

Loved pretending he was a Conductor.

This was a neat puzzle that had locks to undo to the open the doors and see what was behind them.

He was on the move.  At least Katie is still being good.

She looks so small in the big chair!

A volunteer kindly took our picture.

Lots of tubes to take a part and put together.

Can you see him walking thru the bridge?

We saved the water feature for last for obvious reasons.

My Kairos moment of the day.

This makes me wish I was a kid again.

So much to play with and explore.

Lots of buckets and bowels and shovels to play with in the water.

One of the air tunnels he was trying to piece together.

Ready for his walk!

My little hoarder of sticks.

Giving his legs a break.

Oooohh.  Dirt.

And we're off.  See the truck in the distance.  It has lawn mowers and snow plows on the back of it.

He'll find anything to walk on.  He had a great time.  Just look at that face!