Habitot Children Museum

On Friday we went to the Habitot Children's Museum in Berkeley. This was part of a Meet-up Playdate and we had never gone before. I had thought that it was for older kids but then was amazed at how much fun we had and how many things there was for babies. First we went to the Baby garden which was an enclosed play area with pillows, cusions, a circle mat and little house, puzzles, and other items for babies to crawl and cruise on.


There was another room set up like a farm. There were cusions designd like bails of hay a farm house play room, a cool tree with velcro holes for apples, a riding horse, and a bench swing. There was a riding tractor and wagon and baskets and eggs and all typs of things you would find n a arm. That room also had something called a wiggly wall. Which was an upright maze wall that you could crawl and climb into.

There was a big art room which I kept Holly away from. But it looked very fun and she will grow into it. There was a Grocery store wuth tons of fresh veggies, carrots, corn, bananas, a counter with stools, two cash registers, and shopping carts that you can put all the veggies into.


Then there was a water room You could run a car wash, play in two large pools, there was a long river where you could pour the water down from the top and it would flow down, and another tower where you could pour water through funnels into little holes and when the base was filled it would errupt like a big fontain.


There was a reading room and a snack room. We met Alex and Angie a 2 and 4 year old and Saturnina and her mom whom I knew from month ago at swim class and then they stopped coming after Thanksgiving. Holly was Saturnina's favorite little baby and she remembered her right away. She is two and a half now, which is why they don't come swimming any more.

We played from 1:00-3:15 and then headed over to swimming. We got into Habitot for free because Katie gave us a pass for being consumer's of Through the Looking Glass which is where Holly gets her services from.

Swimming was a nightmare. There had been a power outage at some point which "messed-up" the pool. The chlorine levels were too high and they had to put chemicles in to lower it. They kept saying 15 more minutes, 15 more. They tested it at 10 to start and it had to go down to 5 before we could go safetly in.

Well class starts at 3:30 and it was 4:45 before I got into the water. There started out with bout 40 babies and only 5 hng on till the end. But we got in, sang our songs and hung out in the water for an hour, and had about the whole pool to ourselves. Since Joel didn't get off work until 7:00 I had nothing better to do then wait and we had lots of fun once we got into the water.

That was our friday.