Port Discovery Children's Museum

Lily and I made the trek up to Port Discovery Children's Museum yesterday.  Lily had an amazing time.  There are two areas for babies.  One is a matted area they can roll around with a couple of toys.  The other is a story time area.  Lily is not a story time baby yet, so I was worried that there might not be enough for us to do there to have made the trip worth it.  It wound up being a 40 minute drive from where we are located, cost $10 to park (though we could have scored a street spot if we were capable of walking a little ways), and the tickets were $14.85 for each adult after tax.

On some days, they have scheduled activities.  One of our daddy friends (who has a very active one year old) mentioned to us that they make the trip worth it by going on a day there are several activities in the Tots Trails toddler/baby room.  Click her and scroll to Tots Trails for schedule. There is a lot of value there if you have a toddler/preschooler and you also have a baby.  If you think you're going to go more than once or twice a year, I think Port Discovery is really worth it to get the membership, because multiple adults can go in for free multiple times.  I also think that there is a lot of value for toddlers, preschoolers and especially for those 5 to 12.  There is a whole multi-level adventure area where kids over 5 can climb and explore. That looked really cool.

Despite my initial skepticism, this trip was completely worth it.  We were there for well over an hour, which for this baby, is incredible. Lily really liked that it was new.  That is one of our issues, getting her enough new stuff.  She'll be toddling around soon, so we'll be sure to make another trip up there when she can more around more.

She played with this toddler ant game above, though she couldn't do much with it.  She was really interested in banging it to get the ball to move.  She loved playing with the stackable waves below.  The wood was textured.

During Jingle Jangle Music Time, Lily tore it up.  She loved the tambourine:

She was able to hit the sticks together, though she liked beating the turtle with them, too:

OMG, she loves maracas:

Then, we found some toys to play with and she rolled around on the floor for a half hour.  She is rarely this happy on the floor for this long.  I just let her do her thing: