Kids

Josh, this morning, was sitting on the couch with Katie watching Cosmos (more on that in a moment). She said "Look at /that/!" in a tone of wonder. Josh echoed it. "Deuh a' /dat/!" Same tone.

A lot of times he says something that makes me think he's just said a complete sentence -- (point) "Ah wa dah!" "Okay, you can have it. Hey, did you just say 'I want that'?" "Yah!" I think he's learning language by sentence as opposed to by word...

Katie has been watching most episodes of Cosmos with me -- I often put them on in the mid-morning on weekends. She asked this morning, for the first time, to watch Cosmos -- I asked if this was so she could watch with me, or if there was something she specifically wanted to see, and she said "I want to watch it! I want to see the cells!" So we put on the section that shows the insides of a cell... when done, she said "I want to see the animation of the animals now," meaning the evolution animation that goes from simple water-repelling molecules to modern humans. Then she wanted to see it again. And again. Very cool.

Robert asked me, last night, "Is the story about the Israelites traveling to the Promised Land true?" I asked why he asked the question. "It's not just a VeggieTales story. I saw it in a movie at Chanel's house." No, it's from the Bible, which is an important book of old stories. "Are the stories in the Bible true?" he immediately asks.

Why does my son not ask about something simple, like where babies come from?

"Some stories in the Bible are about old kings and countries, and they match what else we know about the period so we think they did happen. Some stories in the bible are stories like the boy who cried wolf, that are there to teach a lesson about how to behave. And some stories, some people will get very very upset if you say they didn't really happen."

He welcomed the info but didn't let it distract him from his first question. "So did the Israelites really travel to the promised land?" "No."