Exploration Place

Explore. Rescue. Protect.

 

Wait. That's Octonauts, different story. (Did you know that male sea horses carry and deliver the babies? No? Neither did I until the trusted Octonauts taught me that. Consider yourself smarter.)

 

Back to the first part-Explore. Exploration Place to be exact. I scoped out the place once with Caden and Reid while Reid was still pretty little. Placed his snuggle bum in the moby-like wrap and hit the ground running taking Caden to 'the castle'. That's what he knows the place as know, 'the castle'. And he loved it. So, I returned shortly after on a weekend with the boys and Gary to show him the place and we purchased a membership at that time. There's multiple different areas to check out, activities you can do and it's inside so if it's rainy, cold, or too hot you can hit up Exploration Place.

 

 

 

Caden has loved it. We recently got to go with Caitlin and Caysen and the boys had a blast. They have a little secluded play room that I didn't take him to the first few times we went because I thought he wouldn't like it or would be too big for it, but not at all. So many toys and 'new' things for him to play with-he loves almost every area. The castle, miniature Kansas aka trains, and play room are a big hit right now at his age. The castle has a kitchen area that has fake food, so that's always a hit with our grocery lover...until another kid comes by and wants to play with that food as well, especially disastrous when the other kids come in behind him and start taking the food out of the cooking pot as he has been working on putting it all in there. We've had to come back down to earth after a few little break downs there, and I've noticed more if other kids are in the kitchen he doesn't even venture in. Ha, guess if you know you don't feel like playing nice or sharing then don't even put yourself in that position, huh?

 

  

 

Something I love about Caden is his ability to enjoy life. He truly enjoys the little things and if you can get on his level and play with him he is just so happy and content.

 

Every time we have gone, this goes for almost anywhere regarding EP/park/zoo, I have used the moby wrap or babybjorn for Reid and it's worked out really well. Reid usually always snoozes and I am more hands free and can follow Caden wherever he wants to venture to. It'll be interesting to see how long that last the bigger Reid gets, I swear I'll be eligible to enter a strong shoulder muscles contest after constantly wearing those carries, but for now it works out great and it's priceless to be able to have memberships to those places and somewhere to get out of the house and go to that is entertaining and 'free'. We can pack our lunches and stay however long our little hearts desire, or until our toddler gets tired and starts throwing fits, whichever comes first.

 

Cheers to cool places to go in Wichita for kids!