{"id":291,"date":"2008-01-05T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2008-01-05T22:01:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T08:01:43","slug":"childrens-museum-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Children’s Museum in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Children’s Museum in Austin is a good way to spend an afternoon. We went on Friday after Christmas and it was full of kids and their parents.<\/p>\n

Leilani really liked to pretend to drive the bus. After some suggestions from us, she would take money and give change.
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One area that she really enjoyed was the paper crafts table. For the first time, she really got to use scissors by herself. Seeing Sonja use them for scrapbooking has made her want to try for a long time:
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With Grandma Rosemary:
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For some reason, the train station area had a decorative sign pointing to Vienna (Wien). I checked, and it’s not even a sister city<\/a>:
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Pushing buttons is what she likes the most and does the best:
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Also in the train station area:
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This being Austin, one of the displays was a model of a biotech clean-room production line. Leilani was too young to really understand even what to do, but she liked to imitate what the older kids were doing. Notice the flattened nose:
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