Strong Museum with the Langes

We have been trying to get together with the Langes for WAY too long, so we finally set a date and no one got sick!  We headed up to Rochester and after playing at their house for a while, we decided to head out to the Strong Museum of Play.  Bridgette and Abby have been there lots of times and knew the fun that was coming, but it took some convincing to get Cameron and Leah on board with the plan.  There are SO MANY fun toys at Bridgette and Abby's house, they didn't want to leave.  Luckily, we told them about enough cool stuff at the museum that they finally were okay with leaving.

All of the kiddos checking out the horse in front of the museum

Hmmm, what is this part of the horse?

Of course, after the girls draw attention to it, Cam had to check it out too.  All of the parents stood off to the side, giggling and not answering inquiries about what that part of the horsey was.

Kiddos at Sesame Street - not the best picture but no one wanted to stand still for a picture when there was so much to play with!

We went into the Butterfly Garden, which was so neat.  There were tons of butterflies, some tortoises and lots of cute little birds.

 

Cute bird

Another beautiful butterfly

Leah loved the little quails that were running around.  She was never quite quick enough to catch one though.

She was very nervous about the butterflies - liked looking at them but did not want one landing on her.

Cameron and Jaime checking out the tortoise

Pretty Bridgette - we were hoping that a butterfly would land on her flower headband

Abby found some flower petals on the ground and was trying valiantly to get a butterfly to land on her.

Mama and Leah

Once we were done in the butterfly garden, we headed over to Berenstain Bears land.  The kids had so much fun there!  Here is Jeff buying something from the quilt shop.

 

Cameron, Abby and Leah with their customer

Abby headed over to the restaurant to cook up some food

I'm not sure what Cam is making, but it looks yummy!

Cam and Bridgette playing giant Connect 4

Leah riding in the pumpkin coach.  This picture was taken about two seconds before she did a face plant off the seat.... oops.

Next up was Wegman's!  Cam and Leah were super excited about this one.  Each kid got their own mini cart and went shopping in Wegman's to get five items.  Cam took off like he meant business.

He very seriously perused the whole store before deciding on his items.  His items were totally random things, but to him they were picked out very purposefully.

Tim was following around Cameron with the camera, so we didn't get any pictures of Leah shopping, but she had a fantastic time too.  Her shopping method was more of a grab five things as fast as you can, but she had a blast.

After shopping, the kids checked out the toddler play area.  There was much excitement over bananas.

Leah washing off the bananas

Cameron driving the banana delivery truck

Silly smile cutie!

Abby and Cameron putting on a show

Leah getting in on the action

Cameron and Leah playing on the trolley in the old timey area of Strong Museum.  This is the only part of the museum that is still familiar to me - it looks the same as when we used to play here when we were kids!

The last stop at the museum was to ride on the train.  The kids had lots of fun going in circles around the track.  All of my pictures are blurry, but they had so much fun.

Another super fun day with the Langes!