What is even cooler is that we just looked at Venus through our telescope a couple of nights ago, and IT is in the crescent phase too.  I took a picture of that, but I have no idea where it ended up. If you have a telescope, or know someone who does, it's really cool to see it.  To the naked eye, it just appears to be a bright star. I asked my 6yos if he could see Venus.  He said, "No all I can see is the moon."  (The moon was in the New moon phase and wasn't visible)...I told him that was Venus.  He started giggling and said, "That's so cool."  Followed by a little more giggling.  I love his innocence.  He's such a trip sometimes.

We also got up really early on Tuesday morning to see the comet...which was either less than spectacular, or I was looking at the wrong glowing thing... but we did get to see Saturn..with it's rings.  I've never seen it before through a telescope.  It was so cool..but now I'm wishing I had a little more powerful one so I could see it better.  It was so exciting. My kids liked seeing it too...although not nearly as much as me.  They were back in bed within 5 minutes.    I'm not sure I have any future astronomers in the house.  Oh well...I love stargazing anyway.