The Groundhog

Madeleine's class talked about Groundhog Day today, but Madeleine wasn't buying any of the hocus pocus about the groundhog failing to see his shadow.

MADELEINE: Mama?  At school, they said it would be early spring because the groundhog didn't see his shadow, but I was like, NO!  It's not early spring because of the groundhog.  It's early spring because of GLOBAL WARMING!

Take that, teachers.  Madeleine's dealing you a little dose of reality.

And then there was this discussion.

JULIA: (showing off her haircut that Auntie Shannon gave her)
ME: Your hair looks so cute!
MADELEINE: Aww.  I really want Auntie Shannon to cut me BANGS
AUNTIE SHANNON: Bangs are a big pain to manage, Madeleine. 
JULIA: Yeah, Madeleine, plus if you want to grow them out, you have to have them hanging in your FACE until they're long enough.
MADELEINE: I just really like bangs.
JULIA: How come in the olden days, bangs, like, used to be, like, totally the fashion?
AUNTIE SHANNON: I feel like bangs WEREN'T the fashion in the olden days.
MADELEINE: (amazed) You were alive in the olden days?!?


Yup.  She knows about global warming, but can't understand the concept of Auntie Shannon knowing anything about history without having lived through it.