Nighttime Rise

Sometimes Travis takes Melissa and the girls to school (because he is an awesome husband). We have to leave pretty early to get the girls in their respective rooms at the Children's Place and Melissa to work on time. Since we live in the frozen northland, the sun rises pretty late. Thus, we get to see some pretty awesome sunrises. The other day the sun looked red and Sheinah was facinated by this so she started paying attention to the sky on the way to school. Suddenly, she yelled out "Dad, look, God painted a sunrise for us! How did God do that?" Then she went on to say some stuff we didn't understand. The next thing we heard was something about "nighttime rise." It took us a minute to figure out that she was talking about how the sky gets dark after the sun sets. Travis started to correct her and tell her that was a sunset, but we decided that we kind of liked the term nighttime rise.

Last night, we went out to Perkins to have breakfast for dinner (our whole family can eat for like $15). On the way, there was an amazing sunset that we were watching as we drove. When Travis tried to get Sheinah to notice it, he called it "nighttime rise." Sheinah proceeded to say "DAD (in an exasperated tone), nighttime rise is when the sky turns dark, this is afternoon nighttime rise." If only kids came with a dictionary or something...