Sunday, August 17, 2008

Fun at Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose


Abrianna is having a blast! Dante likes splashing!
Massimo joins the fun!

Massimo climbs the bridge. Dante is small like a mushroom!

Abrianna talks to herself in the mirror!





Even though Massimo's Uncle Ryan is a firefighter and could
go on a fire truck anytime, he still had fun on this one!

This was supposed to be a weekend away for us, but with all the activities at the end of the week with the kids and Donavan having to go into work a few hours on Sunday, we decided to do a day activity instead so we chose the Children's Discovery Museum over the Aquarium of the Bay & Monterey Bay Aquarium....Massimo's been asking every day to go to the ocean and see fishies but we felt it might be too much with the babies and all. When the toddler area is up and running again at the Aqaurium of the Bay we'll head there for the ocean and fishies because I think everytime we go somewhere he thinks he's going to go to the ocean! Massimo didn't know what to do with himself, he was running from place to place and wanted to play with everything but also not miss the next thing! We started the twins out in the Water Ways...surprisingly Massimo wasn't that interested in the big kids area of this (well, not at first until he saw how much fun brother and sister were having). The twins had a blast in this area but we should've done this last because Abrianna was soaked head to toe (regardless of having the smock on)...she is just a spitting image of big brother when it comes to water when he was her age (and still loves it)...she just loves to splash and play and couldn't care less if she can't even see with water in her face! Dante did pretty good, too for being a little more hesitant about splashing water - a few times he wasn't too crazy about Abi splashing him but he still had a blast. I think he was just happy to be out of the stroller (hence why we chose this place over Aqaurium of the Bay as they don't have anywhere for kids to play-yet)...he DOES NOT like being in the stroller unless he's eating or moving briskly. By about lunch time (or close to it) the twins were losing their steam so we didn't make it upstairs but they had a lot of fun roaming in the Alice & Wonderland area, the circles and of course Massimo loved climbing into the fire truck and ambulance and Wells Fargo wagon (?). And mommy and daddy had a nice date night after a fun day with the kids!

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Fun at the SF Aquarium by the Bay

We took a trip to the SF Aquarium by the Bay today to satisfy Massimo's constant wish to "see the ocean and fishies". At the end of the day we asked Massimo if he had fun (yes, of course he says) and his most favorite thing was the...scuba diver! Yes, that's all he talked about when we asked him what he saw. Of course when we jogged his memory and talked about the fish and what we did he enjoyed "finding Nemo" (one of his favorite movies - and where the fascination of scuba divers all started...don't be surprised if that's what he ends up being for Halloween!) and touching the Stingray and sharks...and outside of the aquarium he got to see trains (Bart), trolleys, buses, and of course the ocean! It was all very exciting for him to be in a big city like that with so much variety around him...so many things to see. The twins loved it, too. Abrianna got to interact a lot more since she is walking and more able, it was a little hard to let Dante crawl so he got to snack and check it all out from stroller view. He did get out at the end in the toddler area and got to touch the sea urchins and he loved that so much! He got really excited watching all the fish swim by. It was a fun day (and tiring chasing after at least 2 and sometimes 3).