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[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"40065","attributes":{"class":"media-image","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","alt":"Ella Playscape 5"}}]]Follow along as three families (just like you!) discover Playscape together. The Playscape 5—Torrence, Myles and Ella, and Gage and Paul—will share their experiences as they learn and grow in the gallery...and at home! See Playscape through the eyes of Myles (age 4 1/2) and Ella (age 2) in this post from mom, Ronnetta. And continue to follow their journey online, on the blog, or by searching the #Playscape5 hashtag on Instagram, Twitter, and Vine!
As our Playscape 5 experience comes to a close (from a blog perspective), we've been so grateful for the opportunity to share our adventures with fellow Playscapees and to watch our children proudly rack up playtime points. With each visit, Myles and Ella show the same joy they've demonstrated since the renovated Playscape opened its doors last August.
A gleeful, piercing shriek, followed by an unshakable grin, appear when we tell them it's time to pack up for a Playscape visit; also routine now is the way they communicate to each other in terms of talking about what they are going to do before we've left the driveway; and, once we park and enter the museum it's a sprint to the third floor with my husband and I trailing behind the kids.
Each visit is like the first time for Myles and Ella. It's always a new discovery and they never get tired of it. That says a lot. Even with toys, children have their favorites, the ones that travel with them from room to room while the 'other' toys end up under the couch. Well, Playscape is one of their favorites, and rightfully so.
Honestly, it's one of our favorites too. I find myself enjoying it through their excitement. I could watch them play with sand all day long, and seeing Myles create a battleship in the waterfall with the net and sharks (where did those come from?), it just makes me smile. And, Ella cannot get enough of the sand. She pretends she is making a cake, or serving up goodies in her kitchen. Now that's a good time, every time.
What have we learned?
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The Creek. The waterfall section, it seems, features new items that routinely appear (besides the sailboats and kid-size fishing poles.) We’ve seen spoons, plastic fish and sharks. There’s no better cause-and-effect than to see a child watch a floatable gently work its way downstream.
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Milestones. We celebrated our kiddos’ second and fifth birthdays in Playscape, in addition to bi-monthly trips. We counted those visits as a present; the kids were so enamored that when we took them to Playscape in February, they asked what occasion we were celebrating!
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Even with the blog's ending, this is only the beginning for our Playscape adventures. Hope to see everyone by the Reaction Contraption soon. Again, we give it our highest, ringing endorsement!
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