Hands-On House Day-Prepare for Pictures

Yesterday we had a very fun days with our friends Jackie, Kate, Cheryl, and Landon.  We started out by going to a cafe and then to the farmer's market in the city.  After that, we went to the local Hands-On House.  The girls love it there, and since we have one year passes, we could bring two friends for free as part of a special they were doing on Tuesdays in March.  Since Kate and Landon are under two, they were also free!  I only have pictures from the Hands-On House...

The first part is all about animals with different doors to look under and hand puppets and stuff.  This is an "underground" part which currently houses an ant tunnel.

Landon enjoyed eating the ants:)  As the only boy in the whole group, he is a great sport!

Kate and Pnut played in the construction part for a long time!  This is one of the parts that changes.  When we went last summer, it was a car racing area.

One of Pnut's favorite parts is the face-painting.  Pilly won't paint anything on her face.  She was just messing around with the paint and I had to remove her.

It is a little hard to tell but here Pilly is holding a fish she caught in the pond.  There is a place to measure the fish to know whether you can keep them or not:)

This is in the beginning of the farm section.  There is also a tractor to sit in, a cow to milk, eggs to sort, and a corn field where you can pick corn and sell it to grocers and feed a pig!

One of the girls' very favorite parts is the grocery store.  It is so neat!  Pilly mostly stays in one section and empties it.  Pnut goes all over the store and gets everything she wants.

They actually for some of the food take real containers and cover them in tape or plastic to protect them so it really is like a real grocery store!

Here you can check out, or if you have a sister, she can check you out!

Equally as popular as the grocery store is the dress-up area.  I have no idea what they are singing, but I am pretty sure they weren't singing the same song!

Pnut likes the costumes that make you look like an animal.  She changes her costume frequently.

Pilly, on the other hand, likes to stay mostly in one costume once she finds one she likes.  She actually cried when I took this off of her.

There were several areas I didn't get pictures of.  Landon loved the giant Light-Bright.  He liked removing the pieces.  The last room in the building is a factory where you go through all the steps of making a Thingamagiggle.  We easily spent over an hour playing throughout the whole thing.  I imagine if the girls had their way we would have been there even longer.  Regular tickets cost $7 for anyone 2 and over.  A family pass for four costs $75 and lasts for a year.  It pays for itself quickly if you live close.

I know most of the pictures are of my girls and I didn't get many of the other two...they all kept going to different parts and it was hard to get them together for pictures!