Last night my 3 year old went to the back of the house to her toy room and quickly did a 180 and came back screaming about a spider and a spider web. Things like this usually happen about .2 seconds after I sit down. This was probably the case because I have to turn on her tv so I was likely just back there. I got up after she pulled on my hand for a second and I went on a hunt for the great spider. She stood in the door way refusing to come in the room. She kept pointing and saying there's the spider as I tried to get her to point it out to me because I really didn't see anything. I tried for a few minutes to figure out what she was pointing at and finally gave up. She still insisted there was a spider and/or spiderweb and refused to come in the room. In frustration I swung a towel around the walls pretending to wipe it off and then she really started to freak out and ran away screaming!
I came back into the main part of the house and she demanded to call her Grammy who lives half a country away. I dialed for her and told her they may be sleeping. When my mother picked up L started going off about the spider and the spider web. My grandmother who lives with my mother than picked up the other line. The kid went off the spider for 15 minutes! I was laughing and she did not want to let it go. I eventually told her I threw the spider out in the trash and she kept looking in the can telling her Grammies the spider was in the trash. The rest of the night she kept a wide berth around the toy room and looked at it suspiciously!
