On This Day in History ...

I think Ian and Christopher understand each other.  They each remind me of the other.  It's nice for Ro to have a friend who is an Aspie, too.  

Nate and Elliott spent the entire party in the kitchen playing Halo.  Halo 3, I think.  They understand each other, too.  I think.  Please notice Nate's tongue, which is always around when he is concentrating.

It was nice that Matt could be here to help Ro celebrate his birthday.  

Ro insisted on placing the candles himself, which I thought was just fine, since he is 14, after all.  He requested his favorite chocolate cake, which has tons and tons of chocolate.  I offered to add frosting, but he wanted just a dusting of powdered sugar.

Think Geek has all of Ro's favorite t-shirts.  I don't know much about Dungeons and Dragons, so I can't explain these shirts.  Ian chose the dice one.  He and his family are D&D experts.

Sammy tired.  

  

I love Christopher's Facebook update on his birthday this year:

I just learned that the immensely popular game: Super Mario Bros was released on September 13, 1985 on the NES, and September 13, 2005 on the GBA. If you know me, you would know that I was born on September 13, 1996.

(I do not know how to describe the emotion that expresses how I feel about how awesome this is.)

Encore

Ro enjoyed his first visit to the library so much that he was positively thrilled when I suggested a follow-up visit.  The first time we visited this library, you see, they simply would not issue us library cards, and we could not check out any books.  This was disappointing. Although we are library card-carriers, our cards are for our little library in Holladay, and they require a current utility bill with our address.  We brought these things this time, and Ro was positively giddy to discover that he could check out 100 items at a time.

Nate was also excited, and had these things to say: "It has the scary elevators! And we can go on the roof! I went there with my camp!"  So, while Christopher was organizing the Manga section and making his selections, I tried to entice Nate to choose a few books of his own.  However, we was much more interested in riding the scary elevators.  No amount of money could entice him to stand close to the edge, and his little paws were positively clammy as he held on for dear life as we rode up and down.  Up and down.  Up.  And down.

I talked Nate into exploring the kids' section for a bit, which is a really wonderful place with lots of nooks and caves and lovely little reading spots, but he was quickly back to his elevator adventure, and desperate to show me how to reach the library's roof.

It really is a fun adventure to go out on roof of the Salt Lake Library.  The kids and I walked all over, looking for landmarks and peering over the edge.  Although Nate wanted to ride the elevators back down, we talked him into running all the way down the steps, and we spent some quality time playing in the fountains at the bottom.

This place, I have decided, is a terrific location for a photo shoot. Maybe I can talk a family out of the canyon-leaves setting and into the urban-library one?