Night at the Museum

This last Friday night, we did our family's annual trip to the Indianapolis Children's Museum (best Children's Museum in the nation) for their Halloween costume party. We had a blast playing games, doing little crafts with the kids, and seeing the exhibits at the museum itself.











Charlotte did the best at the games, since they would let her kind of cheat and get right up to the holes for the bean bag tosses (they also let her do it time and time again...they just can't say no to a girl dressed up as a chicken).











The Carousel was also a big hit. Shawn had to be the big brother and decided to show off and go without holding on, while Charlie held on for his life. It was nice to see Charlie still be a little safe (since he has thrown caution to the wind at home now it seems). Charlotte thought it was a blast as well and liked the music on it as it went around.












As you know, last year the Horrocks family won the "Best Family Costume" with our Star Wars set up, so this year we went a little more down to earth as went as a farm. Dad was the farmer, Bec was the farmer wife holding the pumpkin (baby to come), Shawn was a scarecrow, Tanner was a cob of corn, Charlie was a cow, and Charlotte was a chicken.

Unfortunately, the museum staff decided to go ahead and judge 15 minutes earlier then they had said, so when we showed up even a few minutes early, they were announcing the winners. It was a bit of a bummer...so we went home, grabbed some Steak n' Shake burgers to overcome the blow of defeat.