During Ricky’s birthday week, he and Billy attended the Children’s Theater Workshop at our Treehouse Museum. It is a few hours every morning all week and then performing a play on Friday night. Ricky has gone a couple of times before and was excited to share it with Billy this year. They also had a couple of our neighborhood friends who went as well.
One day, while the boys did the workshop, the other three and I stayed to play at the Museum. But, the museum didn’t open as early as the workshop began, so we walked around the Ogden Temple grounds for a while first.
The boys love the museum and I love that Bobby is mostly old enough to just play without me having to hover over him too much. Everything here is child friendly and they welcome climbing all over the big train engine (Rusty is the engineer).
Their imaginations went wild!
Bobby loved that there were 5 different train tables for him to go back and forth between!
Rusty thought this eagle puppet was pretty cool! “Momma, take a picture of me with THIS!”
While the older two played on the computers, Bobby set up his own imagination land. It was a land where robots chased dinosaurs and fairies because the giant one year old was going to sit on them all! I thought it was a good story line.
No visit is complete without a turn on the firetruck!
And then Bobby was back to the train tables. I actually don’t really like the museum myself. I like how much fun the boys have, but I despise how other parents just let their kids go and don’t watch them at all. It drives me crazy and, try as I might, I can’t let it go and relax knowing no one is watching most of these kids. It was nice when we first got there, but it got more and more crazy as time went on. I actually heard one mom tell her son who could not have been more than 3, “Mommy will be right here. Go do what you want and be kind!” I saw that kid later. He wasn’t being kind. Sigh. And that is why we don’t go to these places more often!
Once the workshop was over, we picked up the big boys and our neighbor boys and got some lunch at Subway and a box of donuts (it was Ricky’s birthday). Then we picnicked at the school playground. I earned my Mommy-Stripes that day!
Then on Friday night, we went back to see the production of “Take My Advice.” It was a series of fables and Ricky had one of the lead roles of being the Stubborn Ram. Billy got to be a sheep and Young Mouse. 15 minutes is just perfect for these boys and I thoroughly enjoyed their performance. You can too … HERE.
