Scientific Theory, Ben Style

On the way to school this morning, Ben announced that he had figured out how the rain falls out of the clouds (yes, another gray day might have prompted this observation). Ben says, "You know what, Mama, it's when the clouds bump into each other." Okay, then what happens, I ask. "Well, all the lids on all of the jars of water in the clouds come off and the jars tip over and out comes the water. That's what makes rain."

Later, Ben proposed a slight alteration to body structure. He said that bones should be connected by magnets. That way, if anything happens, the doctors can just put them back together. Travis pointed out that it's not necessarily a good idea to put metal in people's bodies because it can rust. Ben had a solution for that one, too. You just have to put the magnets in plastic. Always thinking, this one.