Ever since Karina has been "mobile" as a child, for as long as I can remember, she has been somewhat of a "clepto" child. If you can't find the binki, go look in the seat of the Dora car, if you can't find her socks, go look in the kitchen cabinet where the stackable bowls are, if you can't find Baby Carter's shoes (Janessa's baby), go look in HER shoe drawer. The girl LOVES to hide things! Is she just a pack-rat, or maybe an aspiring pirate, you know, swiping her own stuff and loving the thrill of finding it again...I don't know, but one such incident happened recently. About two weeks ago she "lost" the pink and golden slippers for her Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (you know the little high heeled shoes that comes with a barbie), and she says to me one day, "so mom, where are the golden slippers??" After I had a good laugh at that little question, we began to search. I knew they had to be somewhere in the house because I don't allow her to leave the house with the shoes, for fear that, "mommy!!!where are the slippers!!!" would happen. So, knowing her history, we searched and searched everywhere for the slippers: in the couch, in her bed, every purse, anything that had pockets or crevices...can't find them. SOOOO, today I go to the hallway closet to pull the last roll of toilet paper out of the bag and I grab the roll and feel something "jump" at me from inside the roll...FREAKED me out! Here I'm thinking it's some sort of bug or a tiny rodent, so I carefully look inside the roll and low and behold! The pink AND gold slippers hidden safely inside the toilet paper roll! Of course she was overjoyed at seeing them again, (again, pirate?) and is now happily putting them on her Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty dolls as we speak. So...what exactly do you call that kind of behavior??? :)
P.S. So as I'm proof reading this post before I click the button to publish it, I'm hearing, "Mommy, where's the pink slipper??!!!" Oh my.......
2 comments:
I love how they hoard they're little treasures. Makes for quite the hunt for us mamas, though!
Thanks for the book suggestions...I LOVE Karen K., but I've only read maybe 4 or 5 of her books. I loved Even Now and Ever After...bawled my way through that last one. And then I read the one about the 9/11 firefighter and the look-alike guy, I can't remember the name of it right now. I'll have to check my library and see what they have that I haven't read.
Oh, and all of your comments made me laugh. :) I thought maybe you had given yourself a new nickname. ha!
Have a great week, Carla!
Ha! I can totally relate. Edie and Emma do the same thing. It drives me nuts sometimes and other times it is just really funny. This morning I was wondering why I didn't have any baby spoons to feed Violet - this afternoon I found three tucked inside their build-a-bear boxes from Christmas. I'm sure the rest will turn up at some point! :)
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