Port Discovery

This is my 100th post! I can't believe I've written that much since I started this blog only 10 months ago. Here's to another 100!

Anyway, on Monday Peyton and I took a trip to Port Discovery. It's a children's museum downtown. It's geared towards kids 2-7 years old. There are three floors, with several exhibits on each floor.

We started out the day in the Royal Farms gas station and convenience store. Peyton drove a VW Beetle.

And then he shopped for some groceries. He chose lots of fruits and vegetables.

I had to pry Peyton out of this exhibit because he was having so much fun. Next we headed over to a room that was filled with drums and cymbals. This was Peyton's dream come true. He loves to drum on anything at home, so he was in absolute heaven! He just ran around from drum to drum banging and banging.

After I finally convinced Peyton to move on to another exhibit, we found an arts and crafts room. Peyton practiced his cutting skills. He also did a little coloring.

We headed over to the "train station" where Peyton played conductor and then took a ride in the caboose.

We found a room with lots of activities geared towards the under 4 crowd. Peyton played on this jungle gym for a while. He loves to slide.

There was also a ball pit in this room. Peyton had fun playing in the balls and also jumping off the walls of the pit and into the balls.

We found more things to do, like this game where you use the steering wheel to try to keep a ball on the road. Let me warn you, Peyton is a crazy driver, so if you ever see him on the road, stay away!

There was a room that had several stations set up. Each station had a book attached to it and a toy/game/puzzle that went with the book. This station had the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" and a bucket full of fish that you could hook into a chain.

Next, we headed up to the diner. There were appliances, lots of fake food, menus, trays, plates, cups, and utensils. Peyton enjoyed cooking food on the stove, putting food in the refrigerator, and serving me. We were in this room for a really long time as well.

After the diner, we went down to the farm. There was a life-sized cow that you could "milk," a vegetable garden that you could harvest food from, and a horse that you could groom. Peyton dug for potatoes and onions in the garden, but didn't really want to be near the horse or cow.

Peyton asked for the drums after each exhibit that we visited. We stopped back by the drum room on the way out. The first time we went in there it was just Peyton and one other child. This time, the room was full of kids. I don't know how the Port Discovery staff member sits in there all day. My head was pounding after about 5 minutes! After the encore of drumming, we went home for lunch and a much needed nap! Peyton had a good time at the museum.

I wanted to include this picture of Peyton driving Mickey around in his Mini. He cracks me up.