Charles discovered stars tonight. My friend, the Intrepid Girl Reporter, was back in town from covering Africa and her family was having its annual cookout. The Mommy was sick so we left her behind and headed out. It got dark fairly early and as I was holding Charles, he looked at the fire and sparks and followed them up. I could see him notice that there were lights up in the sky. He started pointed at them, very excited. At first I thought he was just seeing the sparks (which were going 20-30 feet up) but he started pointing at other places above and cooing and bouncing up and down as he does when he’s excessively happy. Then he looked at me to make sure that I understood what a cool thing he had discovered…