The Omaha Children’s Museum.

We got to the children’s museum and immediately decided we’d start upstairs at the dinosaur traveling exhibit. I remember seeing one of these exhibits with my grandma when i was little and thought it was pretty cool, so we were betting the kids would like it too.

Ellie and i had to check out the maiasaura. There is an episode of Dora where she and Diego were helping a “Maia” the Maiasaura get back to her family. It used to be my favorite episode next to Dora’s pirate adventure…just because it was double length and I knew it would hold their attention for 40 minutes.

I’m pretty sure Ellie thought the eggs were real at first…she kept asking why the one that was half out of the shell couldn’t get out.

At one point, Ellie and i were checking out the t-rex…and she was a little apprehensive about getting too close because it scared her…I told her to come to me and I’d pick her up. Being the kind of parent I am…I decided I’d put her a little closer to the head so she could still get a good view while “being safe.” It was at that exact moment, the t-rex moved its head to look at her, opened its mouth, and roared. She screamed like a little girl…(which I realize she is…but still), and I couldn’t stop laughing. She kept telling her daddy that I tried to feed her to the dinosaur.

In this exhibit, they also had a lot of camping stuff…a tent with books about dinosaurs in it, and a camp cooking section where you could “grill” veggies and meat. I’m not really sure what this had to do with the dinosaurs…unless of course, that isn’t beef evan is grilling…

Back downstairs…this was Evan’s favorite place to be…all dressed up and in the driver’s seat of the firetruck.

Or learning about pulley’s with his sister by going for a ride.

The ball room!! Both kids loved trying to figure out what would happen with the balls and how to get them to where they wanted them to go. I can’t believe we didn’t get a picture…perhaps its because we were too busy playing too!

There was one room…where they could see themselves dancing on screen…hilarious to watch! Here they are…Can you tell its Ellie and Evan??

And trying on stage make-up. Evan wanted me to paint a kitty on his face…Ellie wanted to do her own. I’m still not sure what it was supposed to be…but she seemed to have fun with it!

First impression:
Great place!! The kids had a great time. We played in the morning…sat outside and ate lunch…and went back in for a bit of the afternoon.

Poor parking! If you go, be prepared to pay for street parking…their parking lots don’t come close to holding all their traffic.