by David Staples
Since it's a Full Moon and with the tone of recent posts, I don't feel to badly about posting this.
Yesterday morning I was standing out by the car with my daughter waiting for my wife to come out with the keys. It was about 20 after 6 and clear as a bell. Jupiter had just risen above the hill and Isabel as usual pointed to the sky and asked where the moon was (you have to understand that this was an interpretation...she's a month short of 2...but moon was clear). I told her the moon was bye-bye (already set behind the houses) and turned to look at Jupiter, where upon she points right at Jupiter and said "tar" (still has trouble with "s").
Encouraged by my enthusiastic reaction, she leaned back and pointed right at Saturn and again said "star". I have pointed stars out to her before but it never seemed to make an impression on her, so you can imagine my joy when she pointed out the 2 brightest objects in the sky and called them stars with out any prompting.
I couldn't help but think of Mark and Mimi with the hope that I will be able to foster the same kind of interest and enthusiasm in my daughter.
I apologize for being rather off topic but as a proud Papa, I couldn't resist telling everyone.
Grinning ear to ear,
Dave S.