We Don't Talk About Pluto

We don't talk about Pluto, no no. We don't talk about Pluto.

It was 2006 (It was 2006)

And there were nine planets in the sky.

IAU walks in with a mischievous grin (dwarf planet).

You telling this story or am I? 

IAU said a planet's big (and spherical).

A planet doesn't share it's orbit (but Pluto does).

Pluto's now a dwarf planet (not one of the eight).

We don't talk about Pluto, no no. We don't talk about Pluto.

Very very rough start to a parody of "We Don't Talk About Bruno" for Pluto Day, February 18. We had some fun figuring out different parts to the song. I love what Lucky figured out for a certain part of the song (you can figure out which part). "If you land on Pluto you would freeze. Ss ss ss."

This morning after working on this a bit with Jr. Jr. and Lucky, we then got into other discussions such as what would happen if you tried to step on Mars as compared to trying to step on a gas giant such as Jupiter. Then we got into talking about Alan Shepard hitting golf balls on the moon. The golf balls didn't fly into space because while the gravity on the moon is less than on Earth, it is strong enough to pull the golf balls down to the surface again, just not as quickly as on Earth.

At dinner everyone got into the song creating. I just love this family. We also made sure to eat together for the holiday, No One Eats Alone Day.

A couple other holidays today: National Battery Day. Jeremy had to take the car battery out in order to change a headlight. National Caregiver's Day. I of course was taking care of Jet all day.