We made it back from the Children’s Museum without any major meltdowns or accidents. Corwin and Charles had a good time, although Charles was more responsive when asked afterwards. He’d say his trademark “Yesssshhhh” whereas Corwin would respond “stop asking me that!”.
Mom was a bit concerned when we started out, because Corwin was excited about watching DVDs in the van, Charles was excited about just riding in the van and Dad was hot to play with his GPS unit. The Museum itself seemed to rank somewhat lower.
However, the boys quite enjoyed it once we got there. When we first got there, Charles refused to go in to the exhibits but preferred to sit on one of the benchs in the hall and play with his new train cars on the ledge behind the bench. Eventually we got him in to an exhibit that involved water and he was OK after that. There were several places that had train set ups which Charles liked, although he didn’t like the fact that the really nice model trains were behind glass so he couldn’t touch them.
Corwin covered most of the Museum, wandering about in his peripatetic way. He didn’t wear out on the exhibits until about 15 minutes before close, at which point he hit the Museum store. The end result is that both Corwin and Charles had to be dragged out even though it was closing time, which probably counts as a success. Alice didn’t seem to care much one way or the other, however.