Squirrel Club

Lulu and her friends are obsessed with squirrels. Apparently there's an official squirrel club at school. She and three friends started it at lunch one day, while they were watching squirrels.

We're planning on having meetings and stuff, she tells me. The first one will be in January at our house.
Today I let her work on the computer for a little bit since she finished all her homework early. She told me she needed to collect information about squirrels for their squirrel club.
I can hear her squealing as she's looking at pictures. Oh they're so cute, she's exclaiming over and over again.

What's wrong with you? Sam keeps asking.
I'm thinking the same thing.

Momma, come look at this she says.
What I say.
This picture.
They don't know if it's a squirrel or a rat.
What? I say.
Take a look she says.

Where did you find that? I say.
I did a search on squirrel pictures.
Lu, that's not real. they're just being silly.

Chipmunks says Sam.
I don't want pictures of chipmunks, I want squirrels she says.

Chipmunks and squirrels are cousins he says.
I don't care, I only want squirrels.
This is a squirrel club.
Whatever. I'm just trying to help he says.
Your obsession with squirrels is weird he says.
I don't care what you think, she says.
Where did you get this weird music from anyway?
It's squirrel music she says.
They have squirrel music?
Yeah, i found it on the Internet.
Too much banjo he says.
I don't get it he says.

You're not supposed to. It's squirrel music.

It's twangy country music that she found on scarysquirrel.org. A little app is open on the mac and little squirrels are playing banjos and guitars and singing.

Squirrel club meetings in the tree house.
Squirrel fabric
Squirrel club pictures.
Squirrel club note pad.
White board to hang in the den for the squirrel meetings.
Large envelopes for keeping all the squirrel pictures and facts together.
That's the Christmas list I got from her.
Aren't they suposed to like horses at this age?