The Zooland Animals are BACK at the Omaha Children's Museum! I would say a majority of people who grew up here - understand the significance of these animals - heck I think of them as our babysitters... mom would leave Matt and I at the Zooland to play while she shopped at Richman Gorman. Which sounds INSANE if you would do that now - but back then - hey why not! The Children's Museum hunted them down and fully restored them and they are AWESOME! They had an unveiling part on Friday and we had a lot of fun...First each kiddo got a nice noisemaker to help with the unveiling - Heidi picked the hand clapper thingy - which she calls her seashells...
We had to play around on the other wonderful things the museum has to offer before heading upstairs for the backyard exhibit.
Heidi chose the chicken...
There are four animals - the camel, the hippo, the kangaroo and the elephant. Funny enough the camel is named Heidi - ha. Everyone went nuts when they opened them for play!
So upstairs they are having all of these outdoor exhibits that are really cool. The only one that is NOT cool is the semi truck horn - Chris and I were plotting on how we were going to disassemble it. :) One part was this mini fake BBQ set that is perfect height for the kids. Heidi, Kendall and Blake played there the most. Heidi enjoyed putting food on the plate and carefully caring them to us.
Heidi made a new friend, Tom, who works at the museum - she was obsessed with him and came out of her shell. She would play and then run across the room to find him and then run back etc etc. He was a good sport!
I think after playing with her friend Tom - she opened up and was ready to try out the Zooland Animals and boy did she LOVE THEM!
And when the kids are entertained...the adults can play too...
Its a GREAT exhibit - so go check it out!!! FUN FUN FUN!!!
Other random pictures from today - on the weekend - Heidi crawls in bed in the morning and we watch videos on my phone - like the "puppy one" - which is basically this YouTube video of Jack Russell puppies running around to music. Heidi LOVES to watch these mini videos!
Ready for Husker game day!!! Heidi putting on her red squeaky shoes!
She sits so lady like - right?
Chris is packing for his trip to Cleveland (training all week) and he got some new clothes - well Heidi became in love with the collar plastic thing and was wearing them like hats - it was pretty funny...
Heidi playing in daddy's new shoes...
Maybe next time she will actually be dressed for once...I doubt that :)