Discovery Place

Waiting for the train to take us to the Discovery Place. This was a highlight for Everest. We only rode it 5 blocks, but it was worth it.

Look how happy he is.


This was very cool. Both boys spent a lot of time playing the drums. It was just a bucket, some pots and pans, and rubber drum sticks.
There was a VERY COOL water table for little and big ones. You can see the different levels of the table. They each had different water toys that were appropriate for each age. Leaf spent the majority of the time (almost 2 hours) at the water table. He was SOAKED. But he had so much fun it didn't matter. It doesn't look like it in this picture, but the water table was packed with kids the whole time we were there.
Leaf playing in the water. Look at his shirt.
Everest got into the fun, with the highest part of the water table. They had clear pvc pipe for the kids to build different channels for the water. Everest got all the tubes to flow into the water wheel.
Leaf taking a turn on the drums.
Everest the mad scientist. There was a rocket you could launch. You had to pump a handle to build up the pressure and then hit the button and see how far and fast it would go.
We took a break in the middle of playing to catch a 15 minute 3-D film on turtles.
Everest had fun with this contraption too. You sit down hard onto the seat and it pushes a metal piece up the tube to ring the bell. Leaf tried too, but he was too small.
Everest built a castle (Leaf helped, but he wondered away when I got the camera out). You can see the giant light bright table in the background. Very cool!

We LOVED the Discovery place (even though the majority of it was closed for renovations- the Kidscience room was enough for us). If we would have been there longer, we would have visited this museum again...and again.

Indy Children's Museum

Nathan volunteered at the Indianapolis Children's Museum on Saturday for Engineers week. We decided to go with him and check out the museum. We have been told it is one of the nicest Children's museums in the country.
We dropped Nathan off early to set up and headed for Whole Foods. We got back to the museum around 11 and it was PACKED! We headed for the Bob the Builder exhibit and saw Nathan on the way. The boys and I played at Bob the Builder for about an hour and then Nathan joined us.


We had lunch and then explored the rest of the museum. They had a lot of hands on things for both kids to do. The front loader was Everest's favorite thing to do. We spent a lot of time here. At the end of the day, daddy and Leaf got to join in the fun.
This was very cool. It was like a giant marble racer, except it used billiard balls. The whole contraction was taller than me and easily 6-8 feet long. This is Everest loading one of the balls.
There was a water area. The kids could fill up buckets, use a water pump, and the coolest-play with damning the water.
Everest also liked the seat digger. They had bark to dig in, kid size shovels and wheel barrows.
Leaf had a great time playing with the shovels while Everest rode the front loader. He was scooping up fake rocks and loading them in the dump truck.
We had a great time. We intended to stay only a short time, but ended up spending the entire day there. Leaf napped in the stroller and both boys fell asleep on the way home. If you are ever in Indy. Check it out.
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/