Cousin Play Date

Saturday morning, Kyle enjoyed a fun play date with his cousin Reagan at the Exploritorium in Skokie. The Exploritorium is a neat indoor activity center where children can explore through interactive play. Kyle really "gets into" pretty much every station they have there: the tumble maps and blocks; the theater; the slide; the fish pond; the giant light bright; the train set; and last but not least, the giant multi-leveled tubes and tunnels climbing area. Naturally he loves to pull out all of the light sticks from the giant light bright and throw them on the ground for Mommy to pick up (well, all of the red ones at any rate), get his sleeves as wet as possible while fishing in the pond, and climb as high as he can in the tubes and tunnels center, annnnnnd not come down. In fact, after about 20 minutes of calling his name and asking kids to tell the boy in the gray shirt holding a yellow helicopter toy to come down, Uncle Sean had to shimmy his way up all 3 levels and scoop him up himself while Reagan and I had a cheerio party on the ground level. All in all it was 2 and a half hours well spent. The kids played blocks together, sort of acknowledged each other's presence, and took it all in. Kyle also ran into his Loyola friends, Ellie and Ryan :)