First I just ask around, "Has anyone seen... ?" "Nope." "No." "Not I."
Then I begin calling his name and send around the general search party for all the usual places: back yard, playroom, with other siblings not present. Cannot find him. I begin to get concerned.
Then one child says, "What about the pantry?" Do you mean the small closet where we store food that's in the same room where I have been the whole time, that pantry? Surely not. I mean, how could I have missed not seeing him?
So, my husband opens the door and lets out a huge laugh. Oh no, what now? Lo and behold...
"Uh oh, am I in trouble?"All at once, everyone begins to laugh. Now he thinks he's entertaining- so he joins in by laughing too and decides to continue to entertain by THROWING HANDFULS of flour...
At this point, everyone is roaring with laughter. Well, everyone besides me. I quickly grab him up and take him outside to dust him off in the grass.
At least I had help cleaning it up...
(BTW- Flour is a PAIN to get out of sugar, but at least, when mixed in say, kool-aid, the flour that you couldn't remove settles to the bottom of the pitcher as a nice white sludge and no one wants the last glass of kool-aid no matter how much you promise that it doesn't affect the taste.)
4 comments:
Oh man!!! That's too funny. We've had our moments of experimentation here too.
Once little K was quite for a long time.. found her pulling every single wipie out of the box and saying "weeee" with each one.
Long time ago... T and M were too quiet (just like you described). Our house was small and they were typically gated into the front room. Not many places to hide. They were somewhere around 1 1/2 yrs old. I couldn't find them anywhere. Then I looked in the far bottom nook in our large TV hutch. There they were... Playing with a BRAND NEW tube of Desitin. That stuff is greasy. We had to turn our heads away and run into the kitchen to laugh quietly (so we don't encourage this behavior - we do this a LOT in our house). I'm trying to be the stern "lesson teaching mom" while holding back some pretty severe laughter. I think I have a few picts of that event stashed away somewhere.
It could always have been worse, right? I guess you know what another million of something looks like now too...
Too funny...I think it would be hard to be stern when he is just so darn cute!
Far-
So funny!
Once I found one of my kids playing "magic tissue box": everytime they pulled one out, another would magically appear. He must have pulled out at least 100 by the time I found him.
5th-
True, it could have been feathers and laundry!
B&L-
It stopped being cute when I caught him w/flour- the 3rd time this week. Thank goodness I had sealed the sugar tightly.
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