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Recently, Susannah has been using her inquisitive mind to our exhaustion.
Last week on the way to church she asked out of the blue where Jolie came from.
We had maybe five minutes of the trip left and both grimaced before we simmered down that truth to "God gave her to us because Mommy and Daddy love each other."
Then she wanted to know if God actually dropped her to earth or what. We just said that Jolie was very tiny when God first gave her to us in Mommy's tummy.
And just last week in the library she chose a book with some harmless title like, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" only for us to discover at home it had scary (for us) concepts and illustrations. We were going to try to read it and just skip some of the most graphic parts (then Daddy and Mommy gets very happy, etc, etc.) but never got around to it. Somehow.
In other deep subjects for four year old discussions, I got the pleasure of explaining the universe.
On the way to preschool in like 10 minutes.
Here's how it went:

Susannah: Where is the earth?
Me: It's one of many planets in our great big solar system.
Susannah: is it like a ball?
Me: Yup, a great big one. And it spins around so slowly we can't even tell when we're walking around.
Susannah: So we're stuck on the earth?
Me: Kind of-
Susannah: Oh look, a puppy!
Me: whew.

It later developed into a quick question at bedtime about how we can get off the planet. And my one word response was "a rocket."
Galon later took that to the whole explanation of gravity level. Scientists. So much for imagination:)