Phoenix Children's Museum

About a year and a half ago, I took the girls to the Phoenix Children's Museum, but it wasn't all that fun.  The biggest downer of the trip was that there was a HUGE field trip planned for that day, and the museum was jam packed with rowdy kids.  The second was that Addy and I were not able to climb in the big fort/treehouse because you cannot carry a kid in your arms, and Hailey didn't want to go up by herself.  We didn't even check out the third floor of the museum on that trip.  We basically stayed for an hour or so and left, big let down.  This time, however, was AWESOME!!!  We went as a family on Sunday, and there was not too many people there.  We stayed for a little over four hours!  The girls had a blast, and we had so much fun watching them play and explore.  It is really the BEST kids museum I have ever been to.  We brought a lunch and ate it midway, and then the girls were GO GO GO the entire time.  Lots of fun, I highly recommend it, but I would definitely check to see if there is a field trip planned first!

 This creature is outside the museum.  I told the girls to climb

on it before I realized it was made out of paper....oops haha.  I

think lots of others did the same thing, because it was falling apart.

 Hailey had so much fun climbing on the

big fort / treehouse.  It was AWESOME, but

a bit scary in some places.

 This boat is suspended from the fort.  You can get

inside it, and from below you can see these legs 

hanging out.  Hailey came  up to me and said

"mom, there's dead legs hanging from the boat"...haha.

 This tube contraption was so cool, even I wanted

to play with it.  You take the scarves and put them in a

little opening and is sucks them up really fast and spits

them out the top.  The girls had fun trying to catch the scarves.

 Jaren climbing up in the fort, such a good dad!

 Addy was amazed at how this ball would hover over

the tube.  She had so much fun, until she had an accident

and peed all over the floor....whoops!  Poor girl, she was

having too much fun.  Good thing I had extra clothes.  I

felt bad that the young girl working there had to clean it, but

she said not to worry at all, it happens at least once a day!

 Addy is our little timid girl.  It took some convincing to get

her to play in the fort, but once she did, she loved it.  The

girls especially loved this big bathtub near the top.  

 Catching the scarves!

Hailey ran to the top of the stairs and

immediately went into a pose...haha.

 This is how Addy does stairs...so cute!

 Playing with sand in the light box.

 

One of Addy's favorite sections was the

trike car wash.  It was really cute.  Kids would

line up on their trikes and push cars and go

through a little mock car washer.  It was really

cute.  Hailey got a little crazy on her trike a few

times...haha, but she wasn't the only one.  We

had to visit this section a few times, they loved

it so much.

 The fort room.  This is a room loaded with sheets, blankets,

pillows, doors and little rooms to make forts, pretty cool.

This made lots of click clack

noises when you dropped the ball.

 I felt bad, but it was funny too.  Hailey saw this 

play ice cream station from a distance and got all

excited and screamed "Mommy, they have snow

cones!!"  Poor girl LOVES snow cones.  But, she

was just as excited to play with it.

 This was my favorite, the noodle forest.  TONS of pool

noodles hanging from the ceiling.  It was pretty cool.  On

the other side was another little play room.

 Jaren making his way through.

 Addy loved the bright colors on this window.

 Playing with Magnatiles on the light 

box.  This was pretty cool.  I almost bought

these for my girls last year for Christmas, but

they are SO expensive!

 Jaren relaxing!

 The fort from the third floor.  It is SO high!

 This wall is covered with CD's, 

looked pretty cool.

 They had a little reading section, with really

cool little reading nooks.

 Putting a puzzle together.

 This was funny.  This is the bathroom mirror.  There

are tons of little squares of mirrors, and I told Addy

"look, there's a million Addy's".  She thought it was so funny.

 Enjoying their lunch.

 The girls and I.

 The building used to be an old school.  Jaren and I thought

it would be a cool school!

 ♥♥Love these pics♥♥

 Painting in the craft room.  We probably

spent about an hour in there, lots of fun.

 Wall of painted shoes.

 

 This was in the play pizza restaurant.  It was so cute.  Jaren and I

sat in a booth, and Hailey was playing our waitress.  It was so

funny to listen to the silly things she would come up with. They 

loved the play pizza oven.  She even got random kids to make

us pizzas...haha.  It was funny.

 Addy playing pipes.

They had a play store that was the cutest thing ever.  There were lots of shelves with play food on them.  The kids were running around, loading up their carts.  Then they would go to the play cashier and ring them up.  Afterwards, they would take their groceries to this station with rolling belts where more kids would put them in huge carts and go restock the shelves.  The kids were rushing around like little ants at work, it was SO funny!  Jaren said he was glad kids didn't run the grocery stores...haha.

 This little boy was so stinking funny!  He was the fastest

little cashier ever.  He kept dropping items left and right,

and that made him laugh even more.  So cute!!

 Hailey asked us if we needed help finding

anything, and then said "I have to go sweep floors now"...haha.

 Addy on the go in the store.

 Dumping their groceries to be restocked.

They would dump them in that big cart and

rush off to stock the shelves, so cute!

I just thought this was cool.  This was the side of a building

that we saw on our way to the museum, all sorts of street signs.