Driving home in the van one evening...Noah: Why is the moon bigger?
Mommy: Every month it looks bigger and then smaller. This is the time of month it looks bigger.
Noah: No, I think it's a different moon. It's a planet. It's Earth. It's where we live.
Mommy: But we're driving on Earth right now.
Noah: No, Earth is a ball. It's flying. [Clearly we're not flying on a ball right now, Mommy.]
Mommy: Earth is so huge that we're just driving on one little dot on the big huge ball.
(a long, thought-filled pause)
Noah: There's two earths. That's the other earth.
Ya gotta love his reasoning...
His introduction to "Earth as a ball flying through space" came from an iPhone app that I [Josh] downloaded during July 4th fireworks. He could look at the planets and moon and spin, zoom, and figure out where people (especially grandparents and cousins) lived.
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