The Phases of the Moon

I don't ever remember learning about the phases of the moon in grade school.  The other day I heard my little sister that is in high school studying the moon phases for one of her science classes and it really interested me for some reason.  I say "for some reason" because things like that do not usually catch my attention.  I am a psychology major in college for the past four years and I didn't realize how little I knew about astrology until I took this class. Because of all this I chose to blog about the eight different phases of the moon. I wanted to study what they looked like, their names, and what order we see them in. To do this I baked white sugar cookies and icinged them in the different ways the moon is illuminated by the sun.  We always see the same side of the moon because of synchronous rotation.  This is because the moon rotates as it goes around the sun.  Starting from a full moon, it first wanes (decreases), until we have a new moon, and then it waxes (builds) until we have a full moon again. This whole process takes about a month.  Below is my diagram made of sugar cookies. Hope you enjoy it...