October 20, 2008
Finders Keepers
After church yesterday I went to get Madison from childrens church and Mark headed over to the nursery for Chloe. I started walking out with Madison and the woman watching the kids told her to wait for her parents. Uhh, I'm right here. The problem was that it wouldn't have mattered, I've never seen the woman before in my life (she was a backup for the regular childrens church lady) So my five year old told her it was ok, I'm her mom. Hmmmm.
We wait out front for Mark and Chloe...and we wait...and we wait. We even walked over to the car thinking they were there waiting for us. After seeing they weren't, we walked back toward the nursery. A friends 10 year old daughter was skating by on her shoes and said "hey, they can't find Chloe" Uhh, come again? "Yeah, we were playing hide and go seek on the playground and she's really good." It wasn't but a second later and I see Mark walking behind her holding Chloe so no time to panic. As he described it, Ms Lou was getting frantic and everyone over there was looking for her...after Mark came asking for her though. The problem there too is the parking lot is right there and there's no fence. Again, I know I can be a worrier, but c'mon! Mark was the one who ended up finding her. She was half hanging down the slide (which faces away from the building) and half laying down on the platform as flat as she could be. Mark asked her what she was doing and she said I'm playing hide and go seek with Ms Lou. So he picked her up and asked her if she was winning.
I have to say, she actually is really good at hide and go seek as long as it's not one of those times she can't take the pressure anymore and she jumps out screaming "here I am!!" She has no fear so she'll be the one to go in the smallest corner, darkest hole and even sit behind our clothes in the closet quiet as a mouse.
She must get it from my grandma. My Aunt and the kids played it with GG over the summer and it took them forever to find her. And when they did she jumped out scaring even my Aunt Linda!
When I was younger my mom left for a weekend once and after I got mad at my dad I went on the other side of my sisters bed to cry. Well I fell asleep, which meant nobody could find me. And contrary to how I am today, back then a freight train couldn't have woke me up. When I woke up 3 hours later my dad is fuming mad and my sister is making sure I know how much trouble I'm in. He called the neighbors, he called my mom, he searched all my forts outside, he looked like Redman from Peter Pan and he was getting ready to call the police.
I felt bad, but I still used it to my advantage. When my mom called next I asked "Now will you come home?!?"
Wow, it's just so darn exilarating to think about the fun times in store for us!
Posted by Amy at October 20, 2008 06:06 AM