Where is the Earth?

I posted this on my homeschool blog to {ahem} encourage other moms, but figured if you don’t read that blog, you would miss out on a good chuckle. :)

At the expense of my children, of course.

We were out late with the kids watching some fireworks last week. My brother, who has a super-cool iphone app to look at the stars and planets, was letting the kids use his iphone. They held it up and found Venus and Mars and some of the  different stars.

We switched back to looking at the planets and McKenna got all excited that we could see a few of the planets:

“That’s so cool! I can see Venus!! Where’s Earth?”

My brother looked at her and tried hard not to laugh and just patted the ground right next to him.