A perfect day

Sophia was sick yesterday, so I decided to take a day off and stay at home with her. She needs a break, just like us need vacation.
Amazingly, she's doing perfectly fine this morning. I canceled her doctor appointment and dressed her up, we headed to Children's museum.
Today is a wonderful day, around upper 60es or lower 70es. When we arrived Children's museum there weren't any crowd yet. We got a perfect parking spot, one block to the entrance.
This is our second time been to Children's museum. We tried to focus on the places that we didn't see for the first time. After hanging around in Mr Roger's Neighborhood for a few minutes we went upstairs, the nursery room, a special place for infants, toddlers. Sophia loved the elevator ride. She tried to push the buttons before and after getting aboard. She was very curious that when the elevator door opened we were at a different place.
The nursery room is not as fancy as the rest of the museum but Sophia can enjoy every part of it. Her favorite part is the bubble seesaw. This seesaw is so neat which has a huge water tank in the center where bubbles rise according to how often you go up and down. However seesaw requires two players. Not many children was so interested as Sophia. I ended up push the other seat by hand to pretend another child playing with her. I started to sweat after she played a couple rounds. My favorite part is the rice table. It's very similar to sand box, has many plastic scoop and toys. Fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, tactile stimulation, planning, imagination, the use of tools and opportunities for social interactions are put to use. The best part, it's clean, not like sand.
Third floor is waterplay. After a fun elevator ride, we got to the top. The whole waterplay room might look like a river or lake to Sophia because the water sinks are huge. She got to put on yellow rain coat and rain boots before entering the play area. I didn't need to worry about getting wet. Sophia was a little nervous walking with rain boots, maybe they were not as comfy as her sneakers. Anyway she wasn't very active playing with water. Waterplay could be more fun in a hot summer day.
Last time Sophia loved the Garage and workshop. So we went again. To my surprise she had no interest in driving mini cooper. She was all into the mini racing cars and tracks. We spent most our time playing racing cars. Who says car is a boy thing?
We spent 2 hours in the museum without a stroller, Sophia never asked me to hold her, never asked me for a drink or sth to eat. She was all into playing. When we headed out the building, Sophia was dancing and laughing. I can tell she had a great time. If she could talk, I know what she was going to say to me, "Mommy can we play a little more?". My answer would be "Yes, but next time".
Yes, we always have next time. I can't wait. And I'll bring camera next time.