kidsquest

we bought a membership to KidsQuest Children's Museum in Bellevue. Buying the year-long membership was about the price of paying regular prices 3x, so we just did it. We don't go all the time, but we prob go twice a month (I went today in fact), so it's worth it. It's basically a giant indoor place to play. Indoor is key considering the number of rainy days we have here. Anyways, this time when we went we happened to run into Kennedy and her daddy Ryan while we were there. Ryan and Blake have been friends for a long time (since junior high?) and Kennedy is exactly one week younger than Ethan, so she's extra fun! You can read more about their family here.

Here are a few pics. :)

this is a see-saw that I think my kids would love if they weren't terrified of it. here ethan's being brave enough to touch it.

oh hey, look, that's kennedy over there! for those of you going, wait, which one... kennedy's hair is in a ponytail and she's wearing jeans.

kennedy showed us a treehouse that we'd never explored before because we thought it was just for big-kids, but apparently not!

there's also a whole water section to kidsquest. kaylee loves it, but is going for her skeptical expression here.

kennedy and ethan

there are little spouts of water and tubes that you connect to them to make the water go crazy ways. I think this is the favorite parent station. my kids just want the water to run over their hands, that's pretty fun. every time we go though there are parents (myself included) trying to build tube systems that go upward, split, fountain down, etc. :)

like I said, kaylee just wants the water to run over her hand.

ethan is at another station going for the same end result. please can I just stand here and have the water run over my hands?

after that we were all wet (despite the attempt at smocks, the water just runs off them and drenches the kids' pants and shoes) so we went home!