It's all relative...

On Saturday we made our way into the city (San Francisco) for our family day. The original plan had been to go to the opening day of the Academy of Sciences. It looks amazing and was free for opening day, but after talking to a friend who had also tried to go and realizing that everybody and their pet pig had the same idea and the wait was over three hours, we reverted to plan b.

Plan b was to visit the Exploratorium, which has loads of hands-on displays for the kids and was a big hit.

Arran loves going into the city...not only do we get to go through a tunnel, but also over a bridge, and not just any bridge mind you, Golden Gate bridge or as he calls it, the Orange bridge (which if you've never seen it, it is a rusty orange colour and not a golden yellow as you might imagine).

Anyway, Arran is at a stage of life where he is full of questions, about everything, all the time. He is always wanting to know how things are made, or what things can do, or how big they are! Now he has a very interesting way of gauging size and here is a very typical example. As we were driving in towards the city, he suddenly got very excited about going over the bridge.

"Are we going over the orange bridge?"

"Yes"

"That bridge is SO big"

"It is, isn't it?"

"Yeah!... Is it as big as a giant?"

"It's probably a bit bigger than a giant"

"Is it bigger than a house?"

"Yes, I think it is"

"Is it bigger than GOD?!"

"No! Nothing is bigger than God, it's just hard to measure because we can't see God"

"Yes, but God is everywhere, even though we can't see him, right?"

I love it. I love the way he sees the world around him. The way he gets so excited about everything, about learning new things, about understanding and seeing and doing. He just never ceases to amaze me. We were looking at a short video from his second birthday party the other day and we just marvelled at how much he has changed. There is NO hint of baby left about him, as there still was then - he is fully a little boy and getting bigger all the time. He is such a blessing to us. He is an affectionate, cuddly little boy who loves to tell us that he loves us, and loves his friends and that everyone is in fact his friend, so he loves everyone!

I love our family days together.