cosi

so, after a snow day friday, we were all anxious to get out of the house. joe had some errands to do around town, so i took the kiddos to COSI [i haven’t been there in almost 20 years!!!!!] i used to go every year with my girl scout troop. we did the overnight stay sometimes too. i decided to load up 3 kiddos, 1 diaper bag, 1 camera, 1 stroller, and 4 eager museum explorers.

we arrived at COSI and discovered it sits off of this street…

she was pumped…ha!

so we unloaded, which is no easy feat with three kiddos and one mama (in frigid temps nonetheless…my timing is impeccable) even though we were

FAH-REEZING, i stopped to take this shot…

we then finally made it into COSI and i immediately got them to pose for me…rare that it turned out somewhat decent (really hard to accomplish with three kiddos wanting to scurry in twelve different directions (i know i am exaggerating a tad bit)…

we found this cool heartbeat drum that all three enjoyed. you place your hands on the handle bar sensor and the heart in the drum lights up and it beats to their heart beat.

i would have to say, the “kid zone” was the biggest hit of our trip. it is appropriate for ages 0-5. i got a little worried about what annabelle would do, but they have a really neat “hang out” room for kiddos over 5. there were many fun things for her to do, while her little brother and sister ran all over…

playing in an ambulance and…

playing with snow and…

and all kinds of ball play…

some water table fun…then we picked annabelle up and headed to a few more exhibits...

and wondering why we don’t just have random bars with holes and big screws for them to play with…they were SO occupied {and peaceful} for many minutes…ha!

finally, one of my favorite memories from my COSI trips of old…”the swinging ball thing” this was mesmerizing to the kiddos. each time we were close to it, annabelle would run over and see how many more of the small balls had fallen into the middle! so good to see that some things never change, and my kiddos don’t need a “screen” [video game, phone, tv] to be entertained.

enjoy,

amber