Follow That Bird

Brett gets out of school early on Wednesdays, so we decided to take the boys to the Minnesota Children's Museum to see the Sesame Street exhibit. It was so much fun! The first thing you see when you walk in are the Sesame Street steps. Colin thought he could go in the building if he just pushed hard enough.

Everything else is set up into stations or places on Sesame Street. One of Colin's favorite episodes of Sesame Street shows Alan and Gordon playing chess, so he and Ian had to play.

Basically they moved the pieces from side to side. After that, they headed over to the green screen to sing the alphabet with Elmo. They had it set up so if you had a video you could record your kids singing, but I didn't know that ahead of time, so a picture will have to do.

Ian really had fun trying to spell words he saw on the walls, unfortunately he didn't have enough letters.

He played for a really long time before he realized that Big Bird was up there. When he finally noticed he started to jump up and down. One of the other areas was a puppet show, but not your typical puppet show. It had a tv behind the desk so the kids could watch their own show, and make sure their puppets were in the right position. Ian really liked the Cookie Monster puppet and kept immitating his voice.

One of the other rooms had a movie of Sesame Streets biggest hits running. I think Brett and I enjoyed that more than the kids, since most of the songs were from when we were young. The kids did get to sit in Big Bird's nest, but the battery on my camera had run out by then.

One last anecdote. On the way to the Children's Museum, Brett thought he knew where he was going and insisted (despite my protests) on taking his "special" route (which led to the Science Museum instead). Brett was sheepish when he realized he went the wrong way. If only he had listened when I told him how to get to Sesame Street!