Portland Children's Museum

One of the big things I really love about Portland is the amount of family friendly, child oreiented and even animal oriented places to go eat, events, you name it. My favourite alternate radio stations even has a program called 'greasy kid's stuff', which is all kinds of silly, kid oriented songs by all kinds of bands, every saturday morning. We steer our kids in different directions here in Portland. We veer away from the cookie cutter TV generation. We go outside to play, listen to the radio, explore!

We have memberships to OMSI and the Zoo, but had yet to be to the Children's Museum-and were we missing out. Needless to say, we bought a year pass when we left. IT was that good. We missed the 'Baby Loves Disco' at the crystal ballroom- but we will head over next month for that one.

Piper and Mama met Mama's friend Andrea from their Intel days. She brought her Newphew Garrett to the museum and we had so much fun. The kids were worn out completely. After 3 hours of play ending with the Marachi band playing in the children's theatre that Piper was absolutly glued to.

This water play area is three times as big as the one at OMSI, which makes Piper very happy indeed.
Here Piper and new friend Garrett play around in part of the playhouse

What a Look!!!! Little miss Piper is taking a good look at herself before transforming herself with the face paints.

Arrr matey! Watch out for the notorious green beard!

Piper and Garrett get into a little impromto jam session with some other kids at the CM.
Andrea and Garrett show Piper how to make music on the xylophone. pretty music