Up, up, and away

So, I was checking my email and E climbs up in my lap and asks to watch a movie. I ask him "what kind of movie?" and he says "pace tuttle". So I start up a video of still pictures from NASA set to music. E is pretty good at naming some of the pictures: "at-naut", "apollo woket", "yunar wover", etc...

And then, a picture of the shuttle attached to an airplane comes up. E says "dat X15 woket pane wid tuttle on back". And I think, "no, E, the X15 rocket plane predates the shuttle, the shuttle flys on the back of a 747."

And then I think: "6 months ago I didn't have any idea about X15 rocket planes or that shuttle moves around on a 747."

I knew having a kid would teach me a lot about a lot of things but I didn't know I would learn more about the space program in the first 2 years of his life than from the first 30 of mine.