Children's Museum

While we were in Richmond last week we took the kids to the Children's Museum of Richmond.  This was the perfect place to go considering it was 100+ degrees outside and the museum was nice and cool.  It was the ultimate play area for the kids without being crazy or overly stimulating.  Everything was designed for play with a purpose.  We stayed a couple of hours in the morning then went back to my parent's house for lunch and naps.  Here is the massive photo dump of pictures from the morning. 

When we first arrived we had to walk around the gift shop while we got tickets.  Charlotte is a shoe girl.  This was the first thing she spotted and hat to look at!

The three and under room had all kinds of vehicles and there is nothing my kids love better than a toy with wheels, especially ones that they can drive! 

There was a farm stand section where you could sort the produce, hit a lever to make an egg come out of the chicken, and push buttons to listen to animal noises. 

All the toys were made to be climbed on, climbed under, or climbed through. 

 

 Trey LOVED fishing in the boat.  The fishing pole was in high demand and he did a good job sharing with other kids, but he could have fished all day.

 

He is also quite adept at auto repair.  I may need to remember this in the future.

This is a picture of Charlotte and a dinosaur.  She is giving him a kiss.

Going down the slide together, although in hindsight Charlotte would have been safer not starting out in Trey's lap, because you can see she ended up behind him!

  

This tree was played with for the better part of an hour.  It is a huge apple tree with 3 sides that have apples coming out the kids can pick and put in baskets.  When your basket is full you deposit the apples into a container inside the trunk and these tubes with air (or some other scientificy-thing) suck the apples back up the tree and out onto the leaves.   

 Back at Nana and Papa's happy to relax and play.