After reading Lindsey's blog about bleeding orange I remembered that I had some pretty good pictures of the girls celebrating LG's UT Law graduation. Here are just two of those pictures.
This is a picture of Bella with her orange and white pom pom and Abigail with Smokey. This story is about Bella and Smokey (UT's one and only Vol mascot), but, as you can see, there is no picture of Bella WITH Smokey.
You see, Abigail tried to take Bella up to see Smokey, but Bella (my toughest daughter by far) choked halfway up the bleachers. Abigail was bewildered because she was trying to hurry to get to Smokey on time before Smokey moved on, and Bella just froze. I was watching them all the way and because of my prior experience with big stuffed animals, I knew from afar that Bella may be having issues.
My little sister Renee hated Chuck E Cheese when she was small. For all I know, she still does.
Well, anyhow, I had to run up and retrieve Bella from Abigail's care, so that Abigail could hurry and get this photo. Before I was even able to snap the photo, I had to take a very anxious Bella back to the other side of the Colliseum to her father so he could protect her from the big bad mascot.
The rest of the evening Bella kept her very vigiliant watch on Smokey and kindly asked to go home whenever he got too close. We were trying every kind of reasoning to teach Bella that the big stuffed dog would not hurt her. The first reasoning being just that: he is just a big stuffed dog. Nothing was working. I have to admit that my best 3 year old reasoning was this: "Bella, that is just Smokey, he is related to Chuck E Cheese. You remember ChuckE from Sophia's Birthday party, don't you? He was so nice. You danced with him and the other kids. Well, Smokey is ChuckE's cousin."
This seemed to bewilder Bella more than anything. She was probably trying to figure out how a stuffed dog and a stuffed mouse could actually be related, but then again, maybe not. Now, whenever we see a big stuffed anything ranging from the ChikFilA cow to the Hardee's Star, the girls always immediately holler, "Bella, look there's another one of ChuckE's cousins.
Very interesting...that she would be afraid of one stuffed mascot but not the other. Cousins! That is brilliant!
ReplyDeletePoor Bella -- that is so cute! Sometimes big oversized stuffed animals are a bit unnerving! By the way -- I've tagged you on my blog!
ReplyDeleteHILARIOUS! I love getting a good laugh from your stories. I hope I'm as quick when I need explain things to Aden. By the way... I'm still scared of the gorilla at Chuck-E-Cheese. Some things you just never get over. :)
ReplyDeleteFunny that gives me a topic to blog now. I am not scared of him anymore but, I do remember when mom took me there on my 5th or 6th birthday, thinking i was over it and i cried and ran away when he tried to give me my free tokens. Tough love.(Maybe it was dads idea haha) Now the cheep skates dont do that anymore. You have to pay and then they pretend like chucky got them just for you. Can you tell I am bitter it may be unconciuos buildup from childhood. Too funny ......Na
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