Moo and Tars

I really didn’t think I ever taught Silas this, except perhaps in a book which really doesn’t look too much like the really thing. But months ago, while traveling by car at night, I heard Silas saying “Moo! Moo!” He was pointing out the window at the moon. How did he know that? His bed time during the summer was certainly before nightfall, so I had never shown him the real moon. Even more surprising was later on when he pointed out the moon in the blue sky. Moon goes with night in all our books, but he still knew that was the moon over there even during the day.

Last night we came home from our friends house, and I had several things to carry so we let Silas walk from the car to the house without holding his hand. I didn’t think he would stay outside in the dark. But he didn’t come in. I looked out the door we had left waiting open for him and saw Silas with his little finger in the sky, yelling “tars!!!” Sure enough, the sky was clear and full of stars! How did he learn that??

Silas saw the moon again tonight as we headed in from playing. So I got inspired and dug out my glow-in-the-dark stars. (Which I can’t see at night without my glasses on anyway, so they are no good to put on my ceiling.) Silas loved them!

It took him a little while to figure out that was supposed to be a moon, but then he wanted to keep turning out the lights.

When I put Silas to bed tonight he saw them all again, and didn’t even take time hug or kiss me; he just wanted to lean back to look at the ‘tars!