Marbles Children's Musem

I'm still on July pictures. We got our membership to Marbles Children's Museum in downtown Raleigh this summer which is a phenomenal deal to any of our seminary friends who are reading this. We have a sponsored family membership which means we receive a family membership to the museum for the year through donations made to this program, and we weren't required to give anything for this (although we did make a small donation to the museum). It is a tremendous blessing for us to be able to take Luke here anytime we want. The play area is incredible. For his age group, the area is completely enclosed, so as long as he's behaving, he can run around and play at all sorts of different stations while we sit and relax/read. We've made several trips since our first trip here, but I just had tears in my eyes with this first visit being so grateful for having this opportunity to take Luke here so often, knowing we could never afford it on our own. It is a huge blessing to us, and he loves going to play here.

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Bus Driver Luke---the bus has a slide on the back side that goes down into the play area.

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Driving the Boat--there are also fishing poles where the kids use magnets to catch fish.

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The train set--Luke played here for a LONG time on this first visit to the museum.

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The very neat pirate ship. Luke hasn't played on here for too long yet---its usually full of bigger kids. We have to go up on this one with him. Its equipped with weapons and pirate costumes.

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Tree House

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In the garden

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Fireman Luke

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Dress up---there's a stage for mini-performances, but Luke isn't too interested in this stuff yet.

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The water tables---another Luke favorite. Leave it to him to figure out how to divert the water from the hose in order to splash everyone around the table:)

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The over-sized chess set

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Writing on the wall

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Playing rhythm instruments

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Mirrored with Daddy

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