An afternoon at the Children's Museum

Last friday I said the weather was dull? Well yesterday it was Winter - with a capital "W", not used to temperatures dropping under 15 degrees anymore! And at least there is one place to go when it is cold... and when it will be getting too hot as well - apart from shopping malls obviously.

Yesterday with my friend, we took our girls to the Children's Museum. Did I mention that Bibs is 9 months today? I have a 9 months old baby girl. She is waving goodbye to Daddy in the morning, screaming of joy when he comes back in the evening as we wait by the front door. She is so concentrated as she crawles to get my shoes, my camera or my handback - I really need to learn to put things away now! And yesterday she tried to stand up by herself, not quite there yet, but she was flat on her feet, her butt in the air. 9 months...

Back to the Museum. I think I can speak for both of us, we were quite impressed. Entrance fee is 3JD per person (we didn't pay for the girls) and there is something to play with for all ages: from toddler to 10-12 year old.

Children's Museum, located in the highest part of King Hussein Park

As you enter there is a library and a cafe - that is for the kids who like to read and the parents to take a rest! And after that you walk from an area to another, pretty much every thing is covered: the human body, stars and space, farm animals, ancient times (where kids can do some digging), communication (with a radio station)... and some more as you can see on the pictures below - and much more than that! - all of the areas have interactive games:

  

View inside the Museum (Left); Electricity (center) and recycling (right)

Plane - you can go inside and sit in the cockpit - supermarket (right)

Obviously Bibs and her friend are a bit too small for all this, so good thing there is a toddlers' area (and a huge area where kids can lie on the floor and draw) as well as a small but nice aquarium!

One of the fish, Bibs really liked!

This is a must go I would say. Kids won't get bored easily in there (there is also an outside area) and they might even learn so stuff at the same time.

Proud Mummy!

I have never done 2 posts in the same day. But I have to. I am just so proud. Bibs is growing so fast; these past 10 days have been so eventful, I have to share it. She is now waving - ok very randomly but she thinks it's so much fun! She has started to clap her hands as well, it just looks so cute, as these 2 small hands come together and she grins all over her face.

Feeding as changed as well. Before I used to give her small pieces of her biscuits or fruit in her mouth so she could eat it. Now she wants to hold it herself and bites and chews! 2 days ago she started to feed me as well. It is just so lovely. She takes some food in her hand and stretches her arm towards me; then she laughs as I approach my mouth.

All this is just fab, but now comes what made my day today. She was sitting on the floor playing and she has got into the habit of throw things a little bit away from her, and then get upset cause she couldn't reach them. Well this morning just reached for her favorite train wagon. Lands on her belly, looks at me very unhappily, like "mummy help me", but I decided to stay put and she then started to get up again and manged to get into sitting position! She just looked so happy and so proud of herself. Laughing and grinning and tapping the wagon and a block together. It was truly a victory for her. Since she has done it several times and just loves it!

I am so proud of my little princess! Of course this brings a new tiny problem. Missy doesn't have the time to sleep and when I try to put her to bed she just sits up and starts playing... Exciting times ahead!