Madelyn's Visit to Kidscommons in Columbus Indiana

Today was Madelyn's first day in Indiana and we had been looking forward to this visit for a long time. Ethan, Madelyn and I spent the day in Columbus, Indiana about a 40 minute drive from Bloomington. We asked my friend Amy and her four year old daughter, Tessa to join us for the fun. We started our day at Kidscommons, a children's museum in downtown Columbus. 

One of the highlights of the museum is this giant toilet. It's part of the exploraHouse exhibit where kids can learn the 'ins and outs' of a house. This exhibit is where the kids spent most of their time. The house had many secret hiding places to climb in and out of. The toilet is on the second story and there are steps underneath the toilet that lead you down to the first story. When you climb down those steps the toilet makes a loud flushing noise, very fun!

Here are some more pictures from the museum.

Basketball Shoot

Bubble Room
 

Silly faces picture on the bridge in the Early Childhood Garden

Madelyn's other favorite area of the museum was the arts and crafts area. We spent a lot of time here fingerprinting turkeys, and making melted crayon artwork.

After playing at the museum for a couple of hours we walked across the street to the huge indoor playground to eat our lunch. There were plenty of places to run, jump, and climb, including this structure that looks like a giant ship.

Madelyn was a little overwhelmed by the by the size of it and we couldn't seem to convince her to give it a try, but she had fun anyway.

After our lunch we walked across the street to Zaharakos an old fashion ice cream parlor that has been serving ice cream since 1900. 

The shop was very festive and decorated for Christmas. The kids had a hard time deciding what order but finally settled on root beer floats.

Despite  the fact that it was huge, Madelyn made a pretty good dent in it.

A fun day was had by all and it was a great way to start to our week long visit with Madelyn!