Ok, so I totally taught my daughter this morning that the sun revolves around the Earth, but let's forget about that tiny little detail and move on with the story...
Ellie: Ah! Da sun is in my face!
Mommy: Yeah, the sun is really low, isn't it? Do you want to know how the sun works?
Ellie: Yeah.
Mommy: Do you remember how last night we watched the sun go behind the mountains?
Ellie: Yeah?
Mommy: Well, in the morning, the sun comes up from over there.
Ellie: Oh.
Mommy: That direction is East. The sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west, where the mountains are.
Ellie: Oh.
Mommy: The sun comes up from over there and goes up and up and up and then down and down and behind the mountains.
Ellie: Sun goes up up up and down hind mountain!
Mommy: Yep.
Ellie: Wat sun do hind mountain?
Mommy: Oh, that's a good question! The sun keeps going around the world until it comes back up over there.
Ellie: Oh. Daddy, sun come up up up and around and down hind mountain!
Little girl, if you really do understand that concept I think I may just have to cry.
haha, that's cute! I wonder what would be more terrifying - the earth spins and goes around the sun, or that the sun revolves around the earth? I can just see a young child freaking out about the earth spinning!
ReplyDeleteAll I could do is smile when I read this. :)
ReplyDeleteoh my word, that is incredible. She gets it! At least it certainly sounds like it to me.
ReplyDeleteI think she does get it. She'll often tell me about how the sun comes up over there and goes down behind the mountains. She's a smart cookie. And cute too.
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