Yesterday, Maggie was looking through my UVU bag to see what treasures she could find. She found plenty to play with, and she found a new animal to ask me about.
At first she thought it was a tiger. As you can see, the yellow on the edge of the mascot's face isn't hard to imagine as the stripes on the face of a tiger. Good dad that I am, I let her know that UVU's mascot is a wolverine, and then we googled some pictures so she could see what a real one looks like.
Maggie was very impressed with the little fur-ball. Looking at one picture, she said, "Like a bear." Then with next picture we looked at she said, "Like a skunk." You should be impressed with Maggie. One of the common names for the wolverine is "skunk bear". The wolverine is a carnivore like a bear, and part of the same family as skunks, the Mustelidae, which also has weasels, otters, badgers and such.
With Maggie's new-found enthusiasm, today Laura and I decided to take the girls up to campus as I ran a couple of errands to get ready for school. Even though this enthusiasm is probably short-lived - what did you expect from a three year-old? - I thought it'd be fun to show her some of the wolverine statues on campus. Between the few statues and the multitudinous logos, Maggie and copy-cat Chloe were busy pointing and exclaiming,
"Wurmereem!"
I never realized how many mascot logos were on campus. It was borderline sensory overload.
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