Kaleidoscope

Tom and I had been talking about taking Jackson on his first family vacation. We were trying to figure out what cities had children's museums....and then we realized that Tulsa had their own children's museum. So, we decided to check it out with Josh and Shannon White and their two kids, Sam and Ben. Jackson had a blast. We easily could have spent 1/2 a day there. He spent the first 1/2 hr in the restaurant room and seemed to have a lot of fun using the cash register and scanner to ring up our food purchases. He also liked sitting at the small tables. We pulled him away from that room into the "grocery store". Jackson loves shopping, especially pushing shopping carts. There was another young girl there (maybe 7 yrs old?) who was playing in the store, too. She kept reminding Jackson of various items on his "list". After he was done shopping, he took everything out of the cart (with a little help), and she rang him up. It was cute watching them play together.

From there, we went into the black light room. Jackson loved the containers with bubbles and the multi-colored lights. Each container had a small plastic fish in it, and Jackson loved trying to figure out where "Nemo" was. They also had a game where you were supposed to hit the button as it lit up....Jackson was way better than Josh or Tom! The next weekend, we came back to Kaleidoscope. We had been giving him some eye drops to prevent an eye infection. When we got in the black light room, it looked like Jackson had a batman mask on....he had rubbed his eyes when we put the eye drops in, and the eye drops were fluorescent in the black light. It was pretty freaky. A couple parents had to ask if he was ok...we all had a pretty good laugh over that one.

Kaleidoscope also has a great indoor playground. Tom went in with them because Sam and Jackson weren't quite ready to get to the 2nd level on their own. Once they got up to the 2nd level, they had a lot of fun. It's kind of like a maze with 2 levels and slides. They had a great time playing there.

They also had large portable pieces for building. Tom built a mini-castle for Jackson with entrances to crawl through.

The playhouse was totally kid-sized. It had an upstairs, and the downstairs was constructed like a regular living room, complete with kid-sized chairs, recliners, and a fake fireplace. It was also the

dinosaur room with lots of dinosaur figures and a kid-sized triceratops that kids could climb on.

I think Jackson's favorite part (other than the playground) was the stage. Jackson is such a little performer. Between the hats, the costumes, the microphone, and the tambourine, he was all set for a great performance. I love how he's just throwing his hands up in the air here, almost like he's saying "Look at me!"