Tuesday we headed to the Museum of Science and Industry with some friends from Texas. We met Alex and Clara when Maddi was 2 1/2 and Cade was 8 or 9 months old and they were in play group together. They moved from Texas to downtown Chicago right around the same time we moved to the Chicago burbs. It's so fun to have friends to play with in the city. This was our first time to this museum and the Radtkes have been numerous times so they were great guides to show us around. The kids enjoyed each others company and Tracie and I got to talk and catch up with each other. The kids loved the science guy with his demonstration of magnets in the picture above.
Cade and Alex really enjoyed the huge train set and were eager to follow the trains around. Notice the airplane hanging above Cade. It was a real airplane suspended on the second or third floor and we went inside of it and saw some really cool stuff. This museum is incredible and I'm not really much of a museum person!
Alex and Cade watching the trains.
Cade said his favorite part of the museum was the idea factory. This was part of that area and he thought he was magic making the ball float in the air.
More of the idea factory. Shooting water at a target which made the wheel turn which made water pump up which made something else do something else and so on. Cade was fascinated with trying to figure out how it all worked. My little engi-nerd in the making!
Alex and Cade, the little train conductors.
Maddi and Clara weren't so enthused with the train so they decided to play on the trolley instead.
Another favorite of the day was the fire and smoke demonstration. This is what I wanted chemistry class to be like. Playing with fire and chemicals. My chemistry classes were more boring like balancing equations with moles.
Another fun demonstration was making goo. The kids each got a turn to pour water or stir or add coloring, etc.
Check out the concentration on those little faces.
Ta-da! The goo is ready. Since they don't want goo all over the museum the kids could only play with it at the demo area but it was fun anyway. It was such a nice museum and there was a nice crowd, but we were able to see or do what we wanted. Another demo area was a lab with a disected bull frog. Maddi was totally interested in that and Cade kind of had a sick look on his face. The volunteer was showing them the organs in ziploc bags and Maddi grabbed the bags and looked at everything. I spared you the photos of the frog organs.
The last exhibit we saw was the farm. The kids always love pretending to drive the tractor and milk a cow. This is Cade sitting in the wheel of the tractor while Maddi was driving. They're already asking when we can go back to the museum. We still have plenty to see and do that we didn't get to this time, so we'll have to get back soon.
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