Today Keenan asked about skull anatomy. Looking at pictures on the Internet we saw the spinal cord connecting inside the skull. "What is that?" asked Keenan. We talked about how the brain sends messages to different body parts.
A little later we were looking at eye anatomy and saw the fibers connecting the eye and the brain. This sparked conversation about how eyes work-- light hits the eye and the brain turns the light into a picture.
"Does your brain send the pictures down the spinal cord?" asked Keenan. "Sort of," I answered. I am happy he understood the explanations. It is fun to see through the eyes of a child.
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Naomi asked me today how our stuffed tiger, Dinah, can come alive. "How can she talk? How did she travel around the world?" (Dinah was lost and "sent letters" to inform us of her whereabouts: Hawaii, China, back to the U.S.)
Before Dinah was lost, Jon would sometimes pick up Dinah and make her talk. He doesn't hide or anything -- just holds her, moves her limbs, and uses a funny voice. It is in no way deceptive. I do admit that sending letters was a bit deceptive. And, after all, the tiger was lost, and wrote a letter about where she would be, and the kids did find a tiger that looked just like Dinah in the spot the letter said she would be.
Naomi's confusion is understandable. On the one hand, I tell her that monsters aren't real and most of the movies we watch are pretend. She is smart, she trusts me. But it doesn't make sense in her mind how a stuffed animal can move and talk. Even when she can see her Papa moving the toy and talking for her, Naomi doesn't see the deception.
Naomi even asked Papa to "talk for Dinah" when she asked Dinah these questions ("How can you talk ?"and "How did you travel around the world?"
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