Yesterday at school Rachel's class learned about Groundhog Day. They had a story about it in their little "Weekly Reader" type magazine, and their teacher read them a book about it, too. She came home talking about it and kept saying all afternoon and evening how excited she was that it was going to be Groundhog Day.
This morning at 6:15, I heard her SPRINTING out of her bed and down the stairs. I always have the news on in the morning, so she came running into the family room and said, "Did he come out yet?"
I told her he wasn't supposed to come out until about 7:20, so she sat and watched the news with me, very intently, for the next hour. (She never watches the news--she's usually playing during that time.)
When it was time for him to come out, she was so excited, and literally on the edge of her seat. While finishing her bowl of Cheerios, she listened as they read the proclamation that Puxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and there would be 6 more weeks of winter. At this, she THREW her bowl of Cheerios across the room and screamed, "NO!" and burst into tears! She was immediately in big trouble for her bad temper, but it was sure hard to stifle back my own laughter at her extreme passion! Who knew it would elicit such a response!? After she calmed down and cleaned up her mess (which thankfully wasn't much, because she eats her Cheerios dry and they were almost gone, anyway), I explained to her that it was just a fun story, and it doesn't really mean that there will for sure be 6 more weeks of winter. When asked why she was so upset she said, "Because I really was hoping to go camping with Daddy in the spring, so I want it to be spring sooner!"
Gotta love my girl and all of her passion....for Groundhog Day and just life in general.
That's hilarious! I can just picture - that girl is passionate!
ReplyDeleteOn the way home from picking David up at school, he was telling me that he learned about "an animal you have never heard of before, Mom." I could not figure out what he was talking about until I emptied his bag at the house and saw the craft. I asked him if he saw his shadow and he had no idea what I was talking about. Oh, well!
Hysterical! Kaden too enjoyed hearing about it. When he got home from school he looked at me and said something like, "Mom...Did you forget...it was groundhog day?" like I had forgotten to tell him of an important national holiday. :o)
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