The Gastro-Intestinal System

Morgan turned to me tonight and asked, "Mommy, I wish we had a belly screen to see inside our tummies." (A belly screen is from "Team Umizoomi," a show whose character, Bot, (a robot, duh), can show you anything on his "Belly Screen" - Skyscraper, Taxi Cab, Traffic Light - direct quote from the song, by the way).

So we went on Google images and looked up the digestive system. She can now tell you all about the esophagus, the stomach and the acids that break apart the food and how the blood absorbs what we need, then how the junk we don't need goes through the intestines and comes out as poop!!!! THEN, she wanted to know about how Cari and Prancer digest their food (the horses she rides). We Googled those images and talked about how a horse's esophagus is as long as mommy, and how their stomach and intestines do the same thing, but the horse has a much bigger system.

Here are some of the images she looked at. It's kind of cool that she can tell me where things are!

She wants to be an animal doctor! Yay for mini me!!!!!