Do-seum Museum

Finally! I've been wanting to check out the Doseum in San Antonio for awhile now and we finally made it. It is an AWESOME museum if you have children and are looking for something to do in San Antonio. I had been hesitant to go because it's $12 a person age 1 and over, which seemed a bit much to me. But it is well worth it. If we lived close, I would have a membership and be there once at least once a week! 

But on to our visit...

There was an entire area of various mirrors - they liked this one because they looked tall.

All kinds of things to build with and suction cup things to stick on these mirrors. There was a camera at the top that projected onto the wall giving a kaleidoscope effect that was pretty neat. This was also right next to a wind tunnel but I didn't get pictures of that.

Of course there was a kid city for 5 and under complete with grocery store, airplane, trolley, cars, vet office, post office, construction site, and more. They could have spent the whole day in this area but I forced them to move on. Levi kept trying to arrest the other kids.

There was even a "park" in kid city for 18 months and younger only (and moms).

Mattie was a busybody, doing her own thing. 

Aunt Hannah joined us at the museum because she wanted to check it out too! She snuck some pictures of Mattie for me (who did not want her picture taken).

Uh oh, animals need surgery. Time to get the scrubs on.

Levi was really controlling the bucket!

This one whole area played with light and shadows and reflections. Mattie loved playing on the projectors. Totally old school - do kids these days even know what they are?

In an outdoor area that said 5 and up but Mattie loved climbing all over this rope ladder. There was also this huge tepee type structure with a big slide that Aunt Hannah and I may or may not have climbed up and slid down. It said 5 and UP.

The wooden throne.

There is so much more that we did but I didn't get pictures of. The outdoor water play table area, the tree house, the entire upstairs area of the museum, the sound area where the kids banged around on instruments, and so much more. Seriously, this place is enormous. But after 3 hours of sensory overload and it was getting to be 1:00, we were hungry and had to leave. We will have to come back another time!

Christmas Spirit

The kids have been excited for Christmas this year - especially because Daddy was coming home for a whole week! To kill the days, we were busy with fun projects. We decorated ice cream cone Christmas trees again (Levi ate his before I could get a picture) and graham cracker "gingerbread" houses.

Mattie's tree:

Levi's house:

Mattie's house:

She really just wanted to eat the candy.

And this cutie pie will one day get in on the decorating action!

A Cardboard Box Can Be...

Santa's sleigh! The great thing about ordering everybody's Christmas gifts online are all the cardboard boxes they come in! We had several cold and very rainy days which means we have been stuck inside. So I cleaned out this box and let the kids have at it. Levi immediately set to work decorating it with crayons to be Santa's sleigh which took all morning. That afternoon they were finally ready to ride. Mattie was his helper elf. With 4 reindeer, lol!

CC Science and History Museum

While Levi took a class at the Corpus Christi Science and History Museum about Texas History, the girls and I just stayed there until it was over. Mattie had a blast for the 2 hours playing in the children's area. I was taking care of Hailey the whole time and trying to keep up with Mattie so I didn't get very many pictures. In addition to the activities below, she loved climbing the huge play structure up to the second floor and coming down the piano key stairs, playing with magnets, weights and scales, and the interactive dinosaur room.

I don't even know how many times she climbed this wall - she is such a little monkey. And she was on the more difficult end of it.

Not quite big enough yet to reach the pedals. I helped her push them so that it turned all the gears in the top of the picture.

Here she was turning the wheel which in turned spun a huge ballerina up on top of the pole. Unfortunately it was a really rainy day and we couldn't go outside and play on the new playground. The last time we came here it was still under construction. Bummer.

And no, I can't keep socks and shoes on her feet!