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A conversation between Christian and me yesterday morning over breakfast:

C: Mama, let me tell you about the earth [hands in front of him, mimicking how I speak to him when explaining something complex].  It is round and we live on it. And if a big spaceship, or rocks hits the earth, it will hurt the earth and put a big whole in the earth and we’ll all be dead.  And Saline Street will have more holes in it.

M: Wow, buddy, that’s a lot of information.  You know, I kn0w about the earth, too. But where did you learn this about a spaceship or rock hitting the earth and hurting it?  Did you see it on Transformers or something?

C: No [rolling HIS eyes]. The earth needs the sun, and if the sun doesn’t burn up the rocks that will hit us, the earth will get hurt. I saw this from the museum where I drove the spaceship.  The place where the sperm whale ate the giant squid.

M: Oh, ok, that’s cool.  So that’s where you learned this?

C: No, I learned this from my brain. That’s how it does. It learns stuff.  I learn new stuff always. I have an idea, we need to go back to the Discovery room, I think.

M: We’ll go back soon. Wow, honey, you sure are smart.

C: Yes, my brain is smart. [skips away]

I truly love entering this new phase of everything being ‘amazing’. He is so much fun, and he is so serious and wide-eyed when he talks about “interesting stuff”.