Life As We Know It: What to do on a RAINY day?

Our play group had planned this trip to the Children's Discovery Museum a few weeks ago and little did we know that it would be the perfect day to go. Just a rainy day! For those of you who don't know, the Museum is in Normal right by ISU. It is a 3 level Museum that is all hands on for the kids. There are things for them to do like a grocery store to Dr. office, trains, legos, etc. They had so much fun as well as us mom's. Jill couldn't join us because Madelyn was sick, sorry Jill! It's definately a trip we will have to take again. So much fun. I highly recommend it to any of you with kids. Just plan for the day though. There is a snack shop area there, but we walked down the street for lunch. A friend of mine even told me you can pack a lunch and take it. The nice thing is once you have paid, you can leave a come back. So check it out!

Up on the third floor there was this neat area where the kids could paint on the wall. We were guessing it was a fiberglass wall and the paint was right there as well as running water to rinse their brushes. They had so much fun with this. Such artists we have girls! I don't know if you can see Ryder in the bottom left corner, and Kennedy who had some green paint in her hair, and then Jack who just seem to have it on his face. But that's okay, where else can you go like this and not have to clean up the mess.

What a work of art!

On the Second floor of the Museum there was basically a farm theme. Big tractors and combines, and places they could act like they were farming and distributing the crop. Pretty cool! Here's Jack and Kennedy in one of the Tractors. They all spent a lot of time here.

Jack is already letting the woman take the wheel!

There was this huge water area, basically like a big water table with a waterfall and lots of toys to play with. Jack had a little trouble keeping the water where it belonged. But I am sure he's not the first kid to have that problem. Looking back, it's no big deal.