A few weeks ago, the whole family went shopping at the local mall. At one point, J wanted to do some clothes shopping in a department store, so I took C off to explore while she and N shopped.<\/p>\n
We ran around for a bit, and then found ourselves in the bed department. I flopped on my back on one of the beds and gave a big sigh. Sure enough the little guy climbed up and flopped on his back too: “Aaaahhhh”<\/em><\/p>\n I smiled over at him and he smiled back – and then I noticed the large spider climbing on his belly.<\/p>\n I sat up quickly and said “Uh-oh! A spider. Hold still!”<\/p>\n He sat up and stayed very still, looking a little scared. I brushed the spider off, and then, to make it a little less scary, said “brush, brush, brush” and pretended to be brushing spiders off his arms and legs as well.<\/p>\n He laughed and we flopped back down on the bed.<\/p>\n Then he sat up and looked at me with a scared (ish) look on his face. “Oh no! A spider!”<\/p>\n “A spider?” I said.<\/p>\n “TWO spiders!” he said.<\/p>\n So I brushed him off while we both said “brush, brush, brush.”<\/p>\n Needless to say, this turned into a game that we played for a fair amount of time. Not a bad game either, I must say. It had spiders, counting, tickling – and strange looks from passersby. What more could you want?<\/p>\n Flash forward to this past weekend, when we were out bed shopping. While we were chatting with the sales lady, he climbed up on a mattress, looked around with a scared expression on his face and said “Oh no! Spiders!”<\/p>\n J and the sales lady looked at him in surprise (and horror), but before they could react I said “How many?”<\/p>\n He nodded happily, “Five Spiders!”<\/p>\n The ladies relaxed and I jumped on the mattress to brush them off – the spiders, not the ladies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago, the whole family went shopping at the local mall. At one point, J wanted to do some clothes shopping in a department store, so I took C off to explore while she and N shopped. We ran around for a bit, and then found ourselves in the bed department. I flopped […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-c"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6DpYi-spiders","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}