Hide and Seek

We have a new game around our house. I'm not sure where Eli learned this game but I am assuming they play it at school. Any time I try to get Eli to do something or go somewhere he runs away like a mad man screaming "Hide! Hide! Hide!" Usually, by the time I catch up to him he is turned around in a corner in his room "hiding" as if I can't see him. :) When he turns around and sees me he gets so tickled and starts laughing like crazy. This game is not fun when you are trying to leave the house to go somewhere! I am trying to teach him not to hide from mommy, but so far I haven't had any success.

Eli also likes hiding his things. If anything is missing in our house then the first place we check is inside Eli's play kitchen oven. The other day I could not find the list I had made to go to Target. I looked everywhere until I realized that Eli had probably snatched it off the coffee table. Sure enough, it was a crumpled mess inside his oven. :)

A few nights ago Eli was helping us give Hailey a bath. Eli usually shares really well with Hailey and other kids (with some gentle coaxing), but he was not excited about sharing his ducks that we had put in her bath tub with her. He snatched them out of the tub and took off running. When he didn't come right back I went looking for him. I first found him putting the ducks in his oven (where else???). He was not excited that I discovered his hiding spot so he took off with them again. He next ran into Hailey's room and hid them in her bouncy chair. He once again got mad when I found him and the ducks so I decided to leave him alone and let him do whatever he wanted with them. Shortly after he came back into the bathroom and wanted Marc to come help him with something. He took him to Hailey's diaper genie and just pointed. Marc opened the diaper genie up and this is what he found...

Four little ducks in the diaper pail and a little boy who looks so guilty confused as to how they got in there. :)

I guess he found a good hiding spot that time... maybe a little too good. :)