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Friday, March 13, 2015
Birthdays and Museums
Birthdays and Museums
This week we finally took our older grandsons, Dylan and
Aidan, on their long anticipated Hanukah and Birthday celebration.
We made the date about 3 weeks ago. Since the boys have more toys than they know
what to do with and the same goes for books-we opted to do the same thing we
did last year:
Kidnap them from a day of school!
This year we went to a great new breakfast spot
first-Eggstasy. Very different menu that
even the boys were impressed with-really.
Dylan opted for a dish he had on our cruise a couple of year’s
ago-crepes with Nutella and bananas.
Aidan heard that they made s’mores pancakes and chose that dish. Steve went for a chorizo and cheddar omelet
(one of the normal dishes) with hash browns and a side of their banana and macadamia
nut pancakes. I broke my steadfast rule
(well as much as I ever do!) on healthy eating and had an egg white omelet with
fig compote and goat cheese with a fruit kebab and multi-grain toast. Not a peep about my need to have no butter
either!
Coffee was needed.
Before we sat down, Dylan told our server that she’d better get me a cup
REAL FAST.
A fact I did nothing but confirm.
After a huge breakfast that both kids demolished along with
helping me with mine we went off to the Arizona Science Center.
This is a fabulous library for all ages. Very hands on-everything from learning and
trying all different experiments about your body and exactly what liquid
nitrogen is and what it can do to building your own dam and taking part in a
weather display that had everything from rain to hurricanes and earthquakes.
We were there for about 3 hours. We could have easily spent more time but the
boys were quite wet from building dams and we had to consider Lucky’s pea-sized
bladder!
Once all of the pottying and clothes changing took place-the
boys wanted to go to a local and award-winning BBQ place for dinner.
The pulled pork sandwiches were delicious and the fries were
perfect and seasoned with their award-winning rub.
That was the end of our very busy day. We dropped the tired kids off to their father
and went home to both collapse and enjoy a repeat showing of The Jersey Boys.
Below you can see a couple of photos that decided to
upload-I tried 4 times to share them all but only these weren’t being
stubborn. One is of Aidan learning to
use a pulley and lift himself up with grandpa’s help and the other is of Dylan
taking a much earned rest on a bed of nails.
Amazing how the boys have grown during the last 3 birthday
kidnappings! Our first we only made it
to the kids’ museum (which they have now outgrown) and now we’ve made it from
just a quick lunch and an hour of “cruising” to a full day’s event.
The best part-we enjoyed it as much as the boys AND we came
home to no “piddles”. Woo Hoo on all accounts!
