Junior: January 2007 Archives

I didn't blog about this earlier, but in early December we trekked up to Dallas to participate in a Czech St. Nicholas celebration. We'd done this last year as well, but this time it's left a lasting impression on the girl.

The party was at my cousin's friend's house and Magda was playing in an upstairs room when Mikuláš, along with the devil and angel, arrived. I raced upstairs to get her before she got freaked out by them and managed just in time. My cousin's son, Martin, wasn't as lucky and was startled when he saw the devil arrive. He then spent most of the evening clutching his mom hysterically.

Magda was pretty terrified of the devil and didn't trust Mikuláš much, either. She spent most of the time with her face buried in Jennifer and barely looked at the trio when it was her turn to face St. Nicholas.

Afterwards she kept proclaiming that "the devils was very scarry" but the angel "was nice". She kept talking about them a lot in the following weeks, but it sort of petered off. I kept waiting for her to start discussing that "the devil is scary" with some stranger and getting a visit from CPS (or some missionaries) but luckily no such thing.

She still occasionally brings them up and -- now in retrospect -- gleefully talks about how scary the devil is. And then she want one of us (mostly me) to "be the devil" and scare her. She thinks it's the most hilarious thing, ever!