The Spider

I picked up the kids tonight from school.  As we were leaving John's school, John said "There's a spider in here."  It was pretty dark in the car, so I said "Are you sure?"  John said "Yea.  I can see it.  Mom!  Get it out of here!"  I was driving, and told him "I can't get it out now."  I opened his window to try to help the spider go outside.  John was very scared, and kept saying, "It's coming closer."  Gillian said "Oh I see him.  Him's so cute!  Aww he doesn't want to go outside.  He's cold.  Close the window!"  John got mad and said "No Gill!  I'm afraid of him.  I don't want him in here."  Gillian giggled and said "I not afraid.  Him is cute!"  John now even more mad at Gillian, said "Everyone is afraid of something!  I'm afraid of spiders."  Gillian said "Not me! I not afraid of nothing!"  John said, "Everyone in the whole world is afraid of something.  Even Mom and Dad!  But sometimes you have to face your fear.  Cause if you don't then it will control your life!" 

The Spider

John and Gillian's school had a visitor last week.  The kids were visited by Insectropolis and they brought all kinds of insects for the kids to see.  Gillian was not too excited about the bugs coming to school (even though it was only a few weeks ago when she told me that spiders were her favorite animal.)  John told me that he saw a tarantula at school.  He also said "I didn't touch it.  But it was hairy!  Did you know that there are no kinds of spiders that can hurt you?"  I'm not so sure about his fun fact, but I do love how he says tarantula.

 

The spider

We set up the kids pool on the deck today. They were both standing in it and they had a quiet discussion. They were pointing at something but I couldn't see what it was. I asked what the problem was and John said "We need a bigger bucket." I told them that there were two buckets in Gillian's room. She went upstairs and came running back. "Johnny! I got the bucket!" They filled up the buckets and dumped them on the railing of the deck. John said "It didn't work!" I asked them what didn't work. Gillian said "There a spider!" John pointed it out to me and again tried to dump his bucket of water on the spider. It didn't work. He didn't have the right angle to knock the spider off the deck. So I picked up the small bucket (the one they had the whole time). John said "The little bucket isn't going to work!" And I poured the water on the spider and knocked him off the deck. John was not too happy that my method worked. Gillian was super happy that the spider was gone. Overall a win-win!