Carrie: “Mommy, did you know that a long time ago…before Anna was born, before I was born, before you were born, before Daddy was born, before Nana and Poppy were born, before Grandma and Grandpa were born, before Big Grandma and Big Grandpa before, before Great-Gramie and Great-Grampa were born…\u00a0 Did you know, that people thought earwigs got their name because they \/crawled in peoples’ *ears*\/?!?”<\/p>\n
Me: “Um.\u00a0 No, I didn’t know that.\u00a0 Do they?”<\/p>\n
Carrie: “No, that’s just what people thought a long time ago.\u00a0 Also, they have thin front wings that fold underneath their thick back wings!”<\/p>\n
Me: “Alrighty then.\u00a0 I didn’t know that either.\u00a0 Why have you been learning about earwigs?”<\/p>\n
Carrie: “Because, *I* sit at the *earwig* table in my school!”<\/p>\n
Me: “….”<\/p>\n
(Keep in mind that this is the child who is terrified of pretty much every bug except ladybugs and butterflies.\u00a0 And all of a sudden she is excited about earwigs…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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