While little children all over the eastern seaboard were getting their good night’s rest for a busy Monday morning, Ty was up and about, home schooling as if he needed to catch up on some work.
I wanted to get some knitting done, so I pulled out my yarn stash and went through the unfinished projects. Ty recognized some of the yarn and showed me the gingerbread man and mermaid that I had made last year. I asked him if he wanted to learn to knit, but he didn’t want to hold the needles. So I started fingerknitting (which is more like fingercrochet), and he was interested. He fingerknitted eight rows all by himself. When I pulled the end of it, it tightened and became a rope. “Wow! It’s like magic!” exclaimed Ty. “That’s knitting.” I responded.
Dad was outside, looking for Messier objects in space through the binoculars. Ty went with him while I nursed Taylor. Dad showed Ty how to find Orion’s belt, Cassiopeia, and Mars, which are not Messier objects but easily seen with the naked eye. They came back inside, and Ty described to me what he had learned.
After putting Taylor down, Ty and I went outside again. I hadn’t seen the stars in a few nights, so I sat in a patio chair and gazed Orion and Taurus. “Look, Mommy. That’s Mars. And we live on EARTH!” And he jumped in the air.
“Cool. Where’s Cassiopeia?”
“Uhm….” tapping his chin, “Right there! The big ‘M.’”
“When I look at it, it’s a ‘W.’”
He looked at it upside down, “Oh yea!”
“Yea, I usually don’t go outside this late at night. It’s usually in the northeast when I see it.”
Kyle was asleep through all this.
