It's Just a Worm!!

A few days ago, we were out in the front yard playing around and enjoying the weather.  Lucy was digging a hole, and the children were curious as to what she had found.  I suggested she had found her a worm.  Sure enough, it was an ugly, fat grub worm. 

Madeleine picked it up and displayed the worm for all to see.  My children love critters--insects, spiders, snakes, frogs, and so on.  However, Mackenzie is not so sure of such things.  She got one glimpse of that worm and ran away in mortal dread, crying and screaming in fear. 

I know it's not funny for her, but we all couldn't help but laugh at her reaction. I did have my camera out, so before I grabbed her to calm her down, I had to snap a few pictures of her.

First, checking out what Lucy has found:

Then, after unearthing the grub worm:

She did calm down, and I convinced her to just look at it.  She was never thrilled about it, but she at least realized it wasn't going to hurt her.  I'm not sure she'll ever like critters as much as her big brothers and sister, but hopefully she won't be dreadfully afraid of them either.