Filed under: The Babby | Tags: Funny, Kids, Kids Say, Water Bunnies, Water Cycle
5 is such a wonderful age. Its a world where facts are being learned at a mile a minute and magic still thrives. It is also an age where it is just inconceivable to not know something.. everything has an explanation. Here is one example.
While the Babby was playing in the bathtub I decided to ask him “How do we get water in the tap?” .
There are water rabbits that hop around on land and water.
It was at this point that I knew this was going to be something i would want to write down so I asked him to stop while I got a pen and paper to write it all down. So I repeated it back to him “There are water rabbits that hop on air and water”
“No, they don’t have wings silly. They hop on land and water. ” ” They make boroughs that go from the sea to the pipes that lead to everybodies houses.”
To which I said if everybody uses water from the sea, how does the sea get its water?”
“Well the water bunnies make boroughs that are connected to the drain which makes it back to the sea, and then it starts all over again. Errrrr, can you erase that… The sea CLEANS up the water and THEN it all happens over again.”
The natural question from me is “How does the sea clean the water” to which his response was (quoted)
“Example, the whales have lots of hairs that turn into lungs, which makes it easier to swim around in water (self corrects himself). Those are water lungs.
Well the whales are so big, RIGHT!!! sometimes sharks are also big and they try to scare the whales, but the whales scare the sharks.”
So I asked how does that clean the water?
“Oh, the skin (Whale skin) has suction cups.”
“Ok Babby” I ask “Where does the rain factor into this?”
“So you know what the rain shadow is, a cloud. A cloud comes by a mountain and the desert behind it is as dry as a desert. The mountain sucks up all the moisture and the other side of the mountain is as dry as a desert. The mountain leads all the way to the big sea. The cloud gets the snow or the water from the sea, it takes it to the mountain and it turns it into rain or snow. And then the mountain catches all the moisture leaving the other side of the mountain as dry as a desert. And with no water over there either. Then the mountains lead back to the sea. It’s Kinda like a Sea Circle. And that’s all about the rain shadow.”
I later asked him about the water bunnies. I was curious as to how they look as I had never seen one. He told me they were very very very shy. But they are also very cute. I said they couldn’t possibly be as cute as my two boys. The Babby replied yes, they are even cuter, but not as cute as the Baby (referring to the Goggy).
I was tempted to teach him about the water cycle and then decided it would be nicer for him to have his water bunnies a while longer. He’s growing so fast as it is.
