Fear and Delight

Take an absolutely curious 2 ½ year old, add walking into a huge room with clear six foot tall tubes running up, across, and around a room and it might be too much. “Let’s go together,” you reassure. Slowly the shoes come off, the cautious steps are made to start the ascent into the maze.  The first time, caution rules every step and every corner.  Yet delight rules as she triumphantly slides down the tube at the end. 

Millie readies herself for the next run. “Come one Cece, let’s go!” Millie leads Cece, making sure she can navigate each step with her skirt as they move from a crawl to walking through the translucent duct taped clear tube.  Sliding down together completes Millie’s need to master her fears on the maze.

  After playing with the blocks, the pegs, and the wall balls, she’s off to the tubes to play with her parents making family shapes and sizes.

 

Tulsa’s new Children’s Museum is a delight for everyone. The science room was our next target.  Whether it is magnetic fields, vision delights, or lying on a bed of nails, there is plenty to challenge your thoughts in its exhibits. Lying on the bed of nails was Millie’s choice.

 First she had to watch her mom, dad and Cece prove it was safe, and then she was ready! There is nothing like watching eyes move from an intense stare to a sparkle, and a mouth move from a tense tight line to a broad open smile of delight.

 

Millie took the lead, she showed us what she could handle, and she led us through this new museum, including telling us when we had to go. The adults weren’t finished, but she had reached her limit. There’s always the next visit!