San Antonio Children's Museum

If it seems like I'm just going from one children's museum to the next...Well...I guess I am. Visiting the children's museum in every town you visit seems like a wonderful way to travel. In San Antonio they had a program for toddlers (that started just when we arrived) where we played musical instruments, then played with play dough, then painted.

They had a little grocery store right outside the room where the program was and when we left all the toddlers grabbed a cart and started running around the room with them at once. Mayhem!

They have a front loader that kids can "drive" and an airplane and a huge tree. The biggest hit was the ball factory. It was a huge contraption with colorful gears and cranks and tubes. The kids feed balls into the machine and they get sucked into a ducts system that collects the balls and then drops them all on everyone's head. Good times.

Houston Children's Museum

Margaret and I took Calvin to the Houston Children's Museum. She hasn't been there since Ryne was a little baby. We spent most of our time up in the tot lot, where they had a lot of ramps and toys and little ball pits, and after playing for a couple of hours Calvin fell asleep, os we went home.

But downstairs there were a lot of things that looked like fun. There was an art studio with easels and paints set up, and a street that was like a miniature town with a police station, an ambulance where they could use all the stuff, a grocery store and a news station. We'll be going back soon.

Calvin and the Snowy J