A visit to KidTropolis

Today we headed down to the Children's Museum with the Graessers. I've been wanting to try it out so I was so glad to get to do it on a weekday when there wasn't 800 million kids running around and being nuts. It's such a cute place! There's tons to do. When Emmy gets a couple of years older she's going to LOOOOVE it.

The museum remodeled a year ago and built a "kidtropolis!" It has everything a city has and the kids can perform jobs to earn a "salary" and then spend thier salary in shops. It's really cute. Hannah decided she would be a news anchor for her job. This was so cute. You could sit in front of the green screen and other kids could change your background, type words for you to say on the teleprompter and add sound effects. I would've eaten this stuff up at about 7.

Emmy decided to be the fire chief.

And Benjamin and Ellie decided to be brother/sister PoPo's on patrol.

Since the rest of the kids were on civil servant budgets, Hannah took a trip to the ATM, pulled out some cash, and decided to treat us all to a trip to the grocery store! There's a little mini-HEB where the kids can shop for groceries and then ring them up on REAL registers. Again, something I would've LOVED. Here's a picture of what Emmy put in her cart. Perhaps we need to have some serious discussions about nutrition.

Ok, to be fair, she did grab a rotisserie chicken first, but it kind of freaked me out a little so I made her put it back. She also found a box of crackers that we have at home and brought them to me. She didn't QUITE understand why she couldn't have any of the crackers she thought were inside.

After all that shopping we decided to express our artistic side and paint. The girls are expert painters by now, but Emmy and Benjamin managed to express thier inner Picasso with only a little carnage to their clothes. Emmy somehow has a blue spot directly in the middle of her butt. How the paint manages to find its way directly to the middle of her butt is a very strange phenomenon indeed. Benjamin just sported a little green patch of hair. Very punk.

We finished up with some playtime at the Tot Spot. It's like a Mall play area except WAY more clean, it doesn't smell like feet, and the adults actually watch thier children. Amazing concept. Emmy had a blast climbing up the stairs and sliding down the slide. There are also tons of other cool things to do like a gigantic lite brite, tunnels, a tea party house, spinning flowers, and lots of things to turn off and on, shut, and open.

We only hit a little bit in the few hours we were there, but it was pretty fun and I can't wait to go back and explore more!