fear of the unknown

Sunday night, Caroline and I were headed into church. She was a little ornery because I had gotten her up from her nap before she was ready. She was awake, but not yet ready to get up. Anyway, she was lagging behind me a little on the sidewalk so I stopped to tell her to catch up. When I turned around, she was picking her feet up one after another. She would pick one up slowly until her knee was at a pretty good angle and then repeat with the other one. She did this three or four times all while seeming to be really concentrating on something. All of the sudden, she let out a scream...her "something's on me and I can't get it off" scream. It was at that moment that I realized that she had discovered her shadow. She was picking up her feet trying to get it off. And when it didn't come off, she flipped out. :) We had a brief lesson about shadows, but we were already late for church, so it was short. I'll guess we'll have to really check out the shadows one of these days!