Morgan and Coever were treated to Chick-Fil-A yesterday as we were out running errands before the holiday week-end.  The Chick-Fil-A kids’ meal includes the chicken, some fries, a drink and usually an educational booklet of some kind.  Morgan received about book about animal habitats and Coever’s was about birds.  They enjoyed looking at the colorful pages, pointing out animals they recognized and every so often, Morgan would toss out a newly acquired factoid about animal homes.

“Coever!” she blurted out from the back seat, “Did you know that mice hibernate in the wintertime?”

“Wow!” said Coever, munching on some fries.

“Coever!” said Morgan, carefully turning a page of her book, “Did you know that termites live in colonies? Just like the pilgrims!”

And on it went over the course of the afternoon and into the evening.  These little books were such a hit, the girls were still paging through them this morning.  Morgan was sitting on her bed, scanning the back cover of her book.  There was an advertisement for several other books in the series, titles like marine life, safari animals and out space.

“Mom, what’s a saddle-lite?” Morgan asked, carefully sounding out the title of one of the books.  As basically as I could, because my knowledge of spaceflight is spotty at best. I mean, I’ve seen “Space Camp“, but that was the ’80s, afterall. In a nutshell, I was able to convey that a satellite was something sent up by the people at NASA (which was another whole discussion) to learn about the Earth, geography and something to do with global positioning, yadda, yadda, yadda.  Her response?

“Oh.”  Then she turned to Coever, who had just come into the room from brushing her teeth.

“Hey Coever,” Morgan said, holding up the book.  “This, right here, is a saddle-lite.”

 Coever plucked the book from her sister’s grasp to examine the photo, and without missing a beat asked,  “Well, where’s the happy light?”

Boy, those synapses are always firing.