Measuring Up

Bedtime conversation with Oliver tonight:

Spinosaurus is the big one.

“Did you know that Spinosauruses are real?”

“Um, maybe…”

“Well, they were. And they were really big. Do you know how big?”

“No… really big?”

“Yes. They were huge. They were 100 times bigger than a teacher!

Reasons to Avoid Being an Astronaut

After reading a bedtime book about the Mars rover, Sarah asked Oliver if he would ever want to be an astronaut:

Oliver: No! No. No. Not even one tiny teeny bit.

Sarah: Oh. That sounds like a pretty strong “no.” Why not?

Oliver numbers his reasons:

  1. Black holes. They can suck you up and turn you into the size of an atom.
  2. I don’t know what Jupiter looks like and I might run into it.
  3. If I go for a space walk, I might forget where I put my spaceship.
  4. If I go out into space, I don’t know if I’ll have enough gas to get back home.