Everything in Chicago starts later than I would prefer (especially when you have two kids that wake up at 6am). However, that was part of the reason for going to the Lego store the night before. We were able to take out the pick-a-brick Legos and enjoy them. There were some special Halloween pieces, including spider webs, spiders, and bones that we don't see very often.
We got to the Children's musuem a few minutes early, so the boys rode the escalator...a lot. There were a few times I wondered if they were having more fun in Chicago riding the escalator or actually doing the stuff.
One of the first things we encountered was the fire truck. We didn't stay all that long, but I did notice that Isaac preformed a great experiment. He wanted to know if the lights flashed on top of the truck when you pushed a button in the truck. He pushed the button and looked. He didn't see anything. He had Joshua push the button while he stood outside. He still couldn't see anything, but also realized he couldn't see very well. He climbed to the bucket which is higher on the fire truck so that he could see the lights, but then he didn't know if anyone was pushing the button. So finally he had Joshua watch and he pushed the button. Joshua said, "no lights". Isaac then looked at us for secondary confirmation.
The special exhibit was Mo Williams. This 'give the cookie to Pigeon or Duckling' occupied both boys for quite a while.
Both boys climbed the schooner several times, but Joshua especially enjoyed it and did it a few extra times.
We then had a snack and a short pom pom war.
Then to the water area! Isaac probably could have stayed longer, but Joshua got attached to this funnel. (It was odd after the attachment to the red balls the day before.) He enjoyed playing with it for a little bit, but after that he felt like he had to play with it but was out of good things to do with it. Then he used it to get himself quite wet...and that was the end of that. We took off his socks and he wore Isaac's sweatshirt the rest of the time.
The other problem Joshua might have been having was that he was hungry. It was quite a bit after normal lunch time and the snack wasn't really that big. We found a pretzel place and split some pretzels. They were delicious.
We took a quick outside break to ride the ferris wheel.
We went back to play a little bit more. There wasn't a ton of time and Cheryl and I wanted to skip the town portion...so we hit a few places including the giant dominos. They started doing pom poms again, but it wasn't working quite as well as the first time so we decided to call it just a bit before we had to. However, the ride back took a bit longer than expected, so it was a good choice.
On the taxi ride home we were talking, trying to keep Joshua awake, and I asked him what a difference was between him and me. The first thing he said was that when he is tickled he shrieks and when I get tickled I don't. Isaac piped in with I'm taller and Joshua's shorter. Joshua finished with I work more and Joshua plays more. While these are all true things, I was surprised that boy/girl differences didn't show up. We had a fairly quick turn around and then went out for dinner at a nice grown up restaurant.
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