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the spider incident
September 2, 2008 - 5:43 pm
OK, this morning I dropped off Jenna at work, with the kids in their seats and one box and several bags of Goodwill stuff behind them. Their bikes were in the back too, I’ll get to that later. Well, I saw a spider dangling on its web from the box and stupid me (you should never tell little girls that there’s a spider behind them) told them that there’s a spider behind them. Savvy initiates the bloody ear piercing scream ritual with her younger sister, Sari quickly joining in a half second later. I really think that Sari isn’t as scared, but the screaming sets off a chain reaction. After all Sari loves catching bugs with me and putting them in her bug catcher cage. I tried to calm them down and told them I would pull into this gas station parking lot and take care of the spider. The spider dropped down to who-knows-where and I decided to pretend vanquish the spider by squishing my fingers onto the car’s carpet.
They were happy.
Soon after we were at one of the great nature lovers parks in town and I started training Savvy how to ride her bike without her training wheels. A few more sessions and she should be great at it.
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