Weasels and all things evil...

This week we noticed a little change in Maddy. She was more fearful than usual...she would throw fits about going to bed with the lights off, she wouldn't go upstairs or in the back room alone. And She had even stopped flushing the toilet because she was running out of the bathroom so quickly. She wasn't paralyzed with fear...we just noticed a change. I attributed it to our impending move. She's "lost" several friends here in the last couple of weeks and honestly I assumed she was reacting to that. Well last night I was laying in bed next her when she told me she had something to tell me...let me tell you, that statement could go in any direction...so I asked what it was. She said Will and Ethan (2 older boys who live down the street) had told her something last Saturday while we were at Ethan's for a cookout. This mind you, must have happened before the boys asked the girls to take their pants off, and Daddy forbid her to play with them anymore! So anyway, Ethan and Will told her that there were weasels running around killing all the neighborhood cats and they were coming after the girls next. Apparently those weasels had "sneaked into Maddy's imagination and wouldn't leave." She was afraid that if she flushed the toilet a weasel might "sneak in through the potty and get her while she was washing her hands." Trying very hard to keep a straight face, I asked Maddy if she knew what a weasel was. She said yes, they were wild animals and they were very mean. I asked her what they looked like...she said she didn't know, but they were ugly and scary. I promptly yelled downstairs to Jeff and asked him to bring his laptop upstairs. We proceeded to look up weasels on the Internet and show Maddy what these horrible terrible monsters looked like. With a look of pure relief she decided that weasels looked like "fairy dogs" with long fluffy tails. She's now decided maybe if there really are weasels running rampant on Fort Sill that's not so bad, she'd kinda like to have one as a pet. I'm sure Fergus would love that! Oh the minds of children...if only all fears could be squashed so easily!



This picture is a classic! I came into the computer room to check on the girls. Sarah loves to sit in the chair next to Maddy while she plays on the computer. Well this is what I found...toys all over the bed and Sarah in the toy bin next to Maddy. Before I could say anything Maddy said..."Well Mommy, if Sarah wasn't little Miss grabby hands today I wouldn't have had to put her in there." Turns out little Miss grabby hands quite enjoyed sitting in the toy basket, as long as she was next to Sis!