Children's Museum

On Wednesday of this week we went for the first time to the Portland Children's Museum. What a fun trip! Andy was off (and behind the camera in all of these shots, unfortunately) and we headed over there in the early afternoon in between naps to explore and enjoy. We were amazed at how much there is to do and were already anticipating how much more Alton will like it when he's older. Waterworks, building stations, clay, face painting, a dress-up theatre and so much more. For this trip we stuck mostly to the Babies' Garden, a corner of the museum painted with tree murals and full of things for babies to climb on, through and around. Alton had a blast!





After the Babies' Garden, we headed over to the exhibit called "Building Bridgetown." They call Portland "Bridgetown" since it is home to a whopping 11 bridges! Several small tables with lights illuminating their centers sat amongst buckets of small, slender wooden pieces similar to something you'd find in a Lincoln Log set. Alton had fun knocking over the Jenga-esque structures I made, and relocated several pieces very meticulously from the table to the bucket; the kind of exacting behavior you'd expect to see in an older child. Our precocious little engineer!