{"id":10193,"date":"2016-02-04T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2016-02-04T21:41:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:41:18","slug":"childrens-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10193","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a friend invited Josiah (and I) to come with them to the Children&#8217;s Museum.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10198\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-16-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10198\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10198\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-16-R.jpg\" alt=\"childrens museum (16) R\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-16-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-16-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zeke and Josiah. They&#8217;re the same age and had a ton of fun together!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t recall ever going before so I wasn&#8217;t sure what to expect&#8211;but it&#8217;s super fun! \u00a0There are a variety of rooms (large and small) on 4 different floors set up with activity stations that the kids just &#8220;play&#8221; with. \u00a0I can&#8217;t remember everything, but here are a few that I remember: \u00a0there was a grocery store room where you can shop and use the register to buy things, a color blending room when you look at combining colors and creating shadows, an ant display where you get to go through tunnels like an ant, a water area where you work with boats and currents and hydraulic power and a conveyer belt area where you get to load and unload boxes and get them to different areas. \u00a0At first Josiah was a little bit unsure about what he should be doing, but it only took about 15 min. or so before he had totally warmed up to the place and was excitedly trying all the stations. \u00a0It was really fun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10196\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-11-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10196\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10196\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-11-R.jpg\" alt=\"Can you sense his sheer joy?  He loved it!\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-11-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-11-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you sense his sheer joy? He loved it! (He even got to wear a rain coat at this station!)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10197\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-12-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10197\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10197\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-12-R.jpg\" alt=\"My turtle Josiah!  \" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-12-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-12-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My turtle Josiah!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10199\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-17-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10199\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10199\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-17-R.jpg\" alt=\"The boys played with the conveyer belt station (you turn the wheel to make it go) for almost an hour.  \" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-17-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/childrens-museum-17-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The boys played with the conveyer belt station (you turn the wheel to make it go) for almost an hour.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning a friend invited Josiah (and I) to come with them to the Children&#8217;s Museum. 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