Eeek!

Oh! Something I totally forgot to share yesterday --

We were all getting up in the morning (husband getting ready for work and kidling getting ready for school). So maybe I should rephrase that. They were up. I was barely able to crawl out of bed. Suddenly, I hear this blood curdling scream, followed by terrified frantic sobbing. It was the Little Diva.
I gazed upon her little sobbing form through my sleepy vision. I couldn't see anything wrong.
She tells me something about a huge spider, and her leg. As you can imagine, she wasn't very articulate. I got the idea. My husband captures the spider under a glass, and slides an envelope under it (to set it free outside).
I look at it, and instantly start reassuring my daughter, "That's not a spider, sweetie. That's a cave cricket."
I was told I was wrong. I take a closer look, and lo, and behold, I was wrong! (Hey, stranger things have happened.)
If you have any idea what a cave cricket is, you have an idea how big the body was on this thing. It's front legs were crawling up the glass (which I mistook for antennae). I don't think I have ever seen a spider this big before!

So why was it anywhere near Little Diva, you ask? It was in her shoe. When she went to put her foot in, this thing scurried out. She backed up in the same direction it was running -- so, of course, she thought it was chasing her.

She calmed down relatively fast. I was impressed. You see, she insists she's afraid of spiders. Frankly, I don't believe her. She always comes up with these things to insist upon. For years, she insisted she didn't like mashed potatoes. (Untrue. All it took was seeing one of her little friends eating them.) Right now, she also insists that she doesn't like American cheese.(I don't know where she got that one.) We don't call her Little Diva for nothin'! - said with a drawl. (Woo hoo! A double negative!!)


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