"You can call me Mr. Whiteface!"

Here’s Sam cleaning up with baby powder after a visit to the beach this morning for a little snorkeling. This afternoon I finally watched one of his favorite DVDs with him – “Searching for Superstars” from the Starry Night software program set (astronomy program). It describes supernovas, black holes, binary stars, pulsars…very interesting and very complicated stuff for me to remember. So Sam refreshed my memory tonight before bed with the above statement about hypernovas. He also asked me to tell him what all the different kinds of scientists are in the world, so we talked about astronomers, and about entomologists (he’s met the state entomologist here – a super nice guy (Mike) who goes by “bugman”). I think Sam is a really science-minded analytical sort – he really studies and asks questions, then considers and asks follow-up questions. After the DVD he reflected on how all the elements that make up all matter in the earth first came from the death (explosion) of a star. I tried to relate it to all the Lego pieces that come in his sets, but he has to put them together to make a “creation.” God helped organize everything into His creation, too – to which Sam said “God is pretty clever, isn’t He? How did He get so clever?”

Yesterday before the birthday party, Sam was buckling into his seat and had a little drool on his shirt. He looked down and said “Hey Mom, I think this shirt knows it’s going to a party because it already has a balloon on it!” The drool was indeed shaped like a balloon! He actually made me laugh out loud – kids are so creative!