Steve's conversation with Anika one night in February

This is how it went:

We were walking Tascha at night before bed and she looked up in the sky and said "Look papa, there's the new moon!" [we had talked earlier about what the moon is called when it is really thin in a crescent shape.) "Yes, I see it!" I said. "Where is it going Papa, is it moving away from us?" "Well, no it is moving around us in a circle. See, the earth we are standing on is round, and the moon goes around us like a circle and comes back." She thought about that and said "And sun goes around us too?" [trying to contain my excitement] "No, we go around the sun! We go around the sun, and the moon goes around us, and we are all moving in space!" She said "I like this!" I said "I like it too!" And she said "And Tascha likes it too!" ......."Well", I said, "I don't think Tascha knows about this because she does not understand our words." She answered "I understand Papa!" "I know, and it makes me very proud" I said. We walked a few more steps and she turned to me and said "Tascha just understands woof woof"!