Children's Discovery Museum

Everyday I learn something new and what I find is that Northern California is very intuned with having places for babies and toddlers to go to play and learn. If not for the miniature playgrounds made for specific age groups at public parks, play and learn lessons, museums all over the valley, cafes where there are play areas for toddlers, party places specifically for toddlers and babies, etc. I can't imagine how I didn't notice these places before having a baby, but good Lord there is also real live clubs that have "disco baby" get togethers. As we go through our checklist of places we want to go to we found another place besides Gymboree and the Oakland zoo that we would like to frequent and that is the CDM (Children's Discovery Museum in San Jose).

It wasn't the first time we went here (we went during the Christmas holidays), but it was much better as we went early in the morning and left while the crowds were coming in and this time we didn't forget the camera.

The girls really enjoyed the new attraction called "Out on a Limb" (nature and art) which opened today (we didn't take any pics of it). They played with fake leaves which they put into a tube that blew the leaves up into the air and they used a rake to sweep up all the leaves just to do it all over again. Hannah enjoyed running around and climbing a tree house. What I learned is that Hannah has gotten really fast on her feet hahahah! Sophie was more fixed on the fake insects and leaves. Sophie did really well with sharing with other kids, I was very proud of her.

They also hit up the water area, the play area for 4 yrs and under, and did some painting on the wall. We ended up eating at Sushi Maru in Japan town for lunch and the girls crashed out in the car soon after and took a very long nap at home too! In mommy and daddy's book that was a very successful day.

Sophie in the mirrored play area. Looks like a disco huh?

Tea time! Funny how the plates are Chinese plates and there were plastic dim sum too!

In the dark tunnel to discover stars, glowing stones, and mirrors.

Oooh a water cyclone and balls what more can we ask for?

Mommy helps Sophie put some balls into the water tornado.

Wheeeeeee!

More fun with balls this time without water. Some kid went a little psycho on Hannah and wanted to tackle her (you can't see it from that view), but his mom stopped him. Der got on video hahahaha!

Here the girls have a pretend meal with another girl.