Nothing like sugar to keep a couple of kids smiling! This picture was taken on Sunday, Novemeber 2.
That day, we celebrated our good friend Heather's birthday with a trip to San Francisco -- brunch at Herbivore and an afternoon at the Exploratorium -- followed by a homemade vegan poppyseed cake (a vegan meringue-y miracle) and a game of Cleopatra back at our place.
Dylan and Taliana both got pretty weary right around 3:30 or 4-ish, but before then, Dylan had lots of fun in the electricity area of the Exploratorium, plugging wires into plugs which completed circuits that lit up lights or made fans whir.
He continues to be incredibly focused on his current obsessions: trains, plugs -- plugging in earphones and jacks of all sorts -- and vacuums (including "earphone vacuums"!). This makes it difficult to pry him away from his object(s) of interest. So it was at the Exploratorium. We scheduled him and Taliana for giant spirograph drawings, but by the time his turn rolled around, he was so into the circuitboards, he flipped out when he was "forced" to do a spirograph. He made it seem like such torture, of course we let him go back to the circuitboards! Once the kids started bickering, we decided to wrap it up and, luckily, both napped on the way back home.
Back at home, Tom and I had left Dylan's Halloween basket on the counter, so through a series of poor communications, we eventually found them munching happily on treats, giggling and hugging one another and their stuffed pals (Taliana obediently "asked" for permission to eat candy via telling Dylan to ask me if it was ok. Dylan did, in fact, make it over to me to talk to me, but we think that he must have forgotten what it was he was supposed to ask because it never made it out of his mouth!). In the end, it was just plain cute. They had so much fun together that night that Dylan sacked out immediately anyway....
Labels: birthdays, exploratorium, museums, weekly_fun
