Fun with Sulfur Hexafluoride
Playing with Light
We got two special ornaments in the mail today - they were small snowmen with LED lights that cycle through the spectrum. The kids and I had a great time playing with them in the dark office before bath tonight:
- Cooper smiling up at his big sister
- Only streaks of light visible
- Cooper and Libby moving the lights around the toy vanity
- An interior "shot" composed by Libby
- Love the transition from blue to orange
Post-Thanksgiving Walk
Thanksgiving was great this year - all four of our parents were there, making it one of those wonderful moments in time that I fondly look back upon. After having a gigantic (and delicious) Thanksgiving meal the entire crew went on a walk. It was brisk but pleasant.
Here's Libby walking with her two "Papas" - love the long shadows:
Fan Fort!
One of my favorite indoor activity with Libby is building forts. We have made pillow forts, blanket forts, and laundry basket forts. But I think we really outdid ourselves when we made this "fan fort":
To construct this fort we cut open 5 large trash bags and taped them into an approximate teepee shape (original plan was a large tube, but we ran out of tape so we improvised). After attaching a small fan and checking for leaks we inserted a table lamp (and loads of toys) to brighten the space up.
This fort is a perfect little hideaway. Despite being a small dark plastic cave, the fan fort is very soothing. The constant whir of the fan drowns the world outside, and it's the perfect place to read books or pretend with a friend.
Perspective (With Respect to Time)
It's good to keep a proper perspective about how big the universe is. It is also instructive to remember just how old the universe is as well.
Carl Sagan popularized the idea of compressing the entire history of the universe since the beginning of time into a single calendar year as a way for us humans to better relate to the vast numbers involved. Here is a nice version of that calendar (each month is equivalent to a little more than 1 billion years):
You can see a more detailed example, with all of the various eras and more human-scale events, here.
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