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N is learning about our solar system at school. She made this picture.
She knows the names of the planets and she knows their order too. She sings a little song....

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
the last one the last one the last one is Pluto in our solar system.

We've told her that poor Pluto isn't a planet any more, but rather that it's a dwarf planet. We explained how science isn't a bunch of facts, but rather a way of thinking* and that people are still trying to understand how things are.

If you notice, there are only 8 planets on the picture. She said she didn't do Pluto since it's not technically a planet.

I wonder how much her teachers will dislike us since we encourage her to be a critical thinker and an active learner already.

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K is just having lots of sleep issues. The other night she fell asleep on the drive home and slept from 6-8:15 pm. I thought she might have needed it because she if still getting over the cold. However, when she was still bouncing around at 1 am, I regretted the decision to let her nap.


Here is a recent picture by K. She drew a Halloween picture and it has a black cat in it. Can you see him?


The black cat is the distinct black figure near the top middle.

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This morning, I was singing the ABCs to T (14 months). I stopped at S for some reason and I swear she said TU. Who knows!

Here's a picture of T (14 months and N 4 and 3/4s) drawing a picture together. We do lots of drawing around here. She thought she was such a big girl.



*"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." Carl Sagan