Peek-a-boo

A story I read today and which I have posted below, reminded me of my older sister, who was between one and two at the time, when she decided to give my mother many a heart attack.

My sister loved hide n seek. One day my mother turned her back for a minute and poof, she was gone. My mother went through the house calling her name with nothing but silence in return. She finally said, “You’re making Mommy cry, I can’t find you and you are scaring me, please where are you”. And out of the clothes hamper pops her little head and she squeaks, peek-a-boo.

One another occasion, my mother who was not awake yet, it was very early in the morning, was startled out of a sound sleep and went to check on my sister who still slept in a crib. She was gone. Again, my mother begged and pleaded for my sister to let her know where she was. But this time there was no answer. She went outside and started calling my sisters name through the neighborhood. A neighbor put her head out the window and said, “I have her up here!”. My mother went up to the neighbors appartment and sure enough there was my sister. She was in a teenage boys shirt. The neighbor told my mother that she saw my sister outside with no clothes on chasing the other neighbors chickens around the yard. So she brought my sister upstairs and decided to let my mother sleep in.

Yet again, on another occasion, my sister decided to go visit her cousin who was the same age and lived down the street and around the corner from us. My mother turned her back for a minute and my sister was gone and my mother went through the same routine calling her to no avail. My mother went around the neighborhood calling my sisters name and the gentleman who owned the corner store came out and told my mother that he saw my sister go around the corner. My mother immediately went to her sisters house and sure enough, there was my sister playing with her cousin while my aunt was on the phone trying to reach my mother.

Now mind you, my mother had four of us and she never lost any of the other three!

So with that in mind, you can imagine the chuckle I got and the sympathy I know my mother would have for these parents:

Little girl lost is found

A favorite childhood game is banned from the Jasmer household after 2-year-old Natalie proved herself the hide-and-seek champion.

Natalie went missing Tuesday evening while playing the game with her brother and sisters and the best efforts of neighbors, police and firefighters called by her frantic parents weren’t enough to turn up the tot.

The terrifying ordeal for her parents ended happily after more than an hour of scouring the neighborhood around the 10th Street mobile home park where the Jasmers live.

In the end, it was the family dog that flushed her out.

Continue reading here……

Open Thread ~ Were any of you or your children this mischievous?