Beginning Astronomers?

Many of you probably heard the devastating astronomical news this past summer that Pluto has been demoted and is no longer deemed a planet in our Solar System. That's right only eight Planets now claim Sol as home system, but never fear...my children have come up with names for any newly discovered planets...full-size or dwarf.

We've been talking about the planets recently. As we were driving the other day, Mimi was trying to name the planets from closest to the Sun to furthest away. She got about half way, and then asked, "Where's Uterus?"

After having her repeat the question, D and I had to wait several minutes before we could answer/ask her to clarify without cracking up... After thinking about it, I realized she just squished a bunch of the planet names together into a word that she recognized (she knows where the baby is growing). But it was so funny to hear that question! Especially since the day before when Buddy and I were talking about the names of the planets he said (pointing to a picture of Neptune) "What comes after Urine?"

I don't know that astronomers will use the names my children have chosen, even for dwarf planets, but that's ok!