Visiting Denver: Denver Children's Museum

On our trip to Colorado, we spent a half-day at the Denver Children's Museum. This museum seems to be focused on make-believe play, which Adelaida doesn't seem very excited by, but she found ways to have fun at each station!

We started at the fire truck area. They have a real fire truck inside the building, and kids can climb on the truck, dress up as firemen, and pretend to put out fires. Elizabeth and Sarah enjoyed climbing on the truck and pretending to be firemen; Adelaida found some lockers next to the fire truck and enjoyed opening and closing the lockers!


Mamaw posed with her three granddaughters:


Next we found the art room. Luckily it was quite empty when we got there, so the girls sat at easels and painted some pictures. Laura pointed out the smocks just as Adelaida was finishing her painting -- amazingly she didn't get any paint on her clothes!


The museum has an area in which kids can pretend to be veterinarians -- complete with animals, x-rays, surgical equipment, and exam tables. Adelaida gave one of the dogs a quick hug, then she was ready to move on.


Benjamin was very content to hang out in his stroller while the older kids played. What a good baby he is!


The kids spent the most time in the woodland animals room. This was a room in which kids could pretend to be different animals (complete with rabbit, skunk, squirrel, and other costumes) and climb up a small hill and crawl through "underground" tunnels like an animal. It was a great hit! We got a pretty good picture of Adelaida, Elizabeth, Sarah, and Benjamin sitting in a beaver den in this room.


Finally, lunch time was drawing near and we headed out. As we walked out the building, Adelaida saw a large statue of a cow. She wanted to check it out, so we wandered over to the cow and let her walk around it and touch it for a few minutes. We then wanted to get going, so told Adelaida to say good bye to the cow. She turned to the cow, waved, and said "Bye-bye ....... cow" and started walking toward the car. Adelaida has just started putting multiple words together -- in the past she would have said "bye-bye" but omitted the "cow" part -- and apparently wanted to practice, so continued saying "bye-bye ...... cow" all the way to the car, at lunch, later that day, the next day, and is still saying it a week later! It has become a catch-phrase at our house, and whenever she sees a cow in a book, she repeats "bye-bye ... cow." She is so much fun!