Last weekend the nieces spontaneously decided to make a volcano in the backyard

(We don't know where they got that idea.)

I didn't find out about the real volcano erupting until a day or so after it happened (and I refuse to try either to spell or pronounce it, I'll just keep calling it "That volcano in Iceland that recently erupted" until it's no longer recent), but I did tell the nieces about it.

Ana: A volcano? Really? REALLY? I thought volcanoes were all in the past!

At any rate, I wonder why I didn't hear about the volcano sooner. Did I hear about it and not pay attention?