Hello...
Well, it's been raining here on and off since Saturday. We were supposed to have the MOPS cookout here at our home but of course that was cancelled!! :( A little sunshine please!!!! Does it sound silly that when the weather's like this that I feel fat and ugly...that's why I love to be outside in the sun...makes me happy!! :) I know Hayden and Case are feeling a little "caved up", but I really don't want to spend my day cleaning mud off the floor!!
Enough of me feeling sorry for myself and complaining!!!!....
I have a little story about Case...for those of you who don't know Case very well, he's very quiet, shy, but OBSESSED with toy trucks, tractors, play farm equipment, etc...hum, I wonder if he got that from his daddy?? Anyway, for Christmas last year, he got a small pick-up truck....he loves this truck, but has somehow broke it in several different areas and it's now missing a tire...looks like it should be up on blocks!!! A few months ago we had to glue some parts back on, but it continued to fall apart, so Jim just put it up on a shelf until he had more time to mess with it. Well, I had moved some stuff around in our little closet in the kitchen, which houses our trash can, small electric appliances, cleaning products, etc... Apparently "the truck" had been spotted by Case last night when I had him take something to the trash can for me. So about an hour later was bedtime. I heard Hayden come downstairs, usually just wanting to tell me something unimportant for an excuse to get up, but this time he proceeds to tell us he went in to Case's room and Case was not there and he can't find him!!! Okay!?!?! So I go upstairs with Hayden and we look everywhere...no Case. We look around downstairs...still no Case! Mind you, we have been saying "Case, where are you...Caaassseee?!!" No answer at any point, so I'm getting a little concerned!! So I go tell Jim we still can't locate the MIA raccoon...he gets up to help, we walk in to the kitchen and the closet door opens up, Case walks out, he shuts the door behind him, and proceeds to just act like he's not done anything and heads back to go upstairs!!!!!!! What the heck...Jim, Hayden and I are just standing there frozen wondering what he has been doing in there and we just break out laughing because he just doesn't have a care in the world...crazy kid!! So by now, I am wondering why he was in the kitchen closet for so long...remember the truck...he must have seen it earlier and thought he'd sneak down and get the truck off the shelf he could now reach and play with it on the floor...no light was on so this was all done with the closet door shut and light off...how fun!! He left the evidence on the floor...the truck was parked by the trash can and he had left his "suitcase" (that's his pillowcase he carries around and sleeps with) on the shelf from where the truck originated from!!!! Guilty, guilty, guilty!!! He never would really tell us why he was in there or what he was doing!! After getting everybody back in bed, Case got up AGAIN and was back in the stinkin' closet looking for the truck...little did he know it had been "repo-ed" to on top of the refrigerator!!!!
I am still laughing about this today!! I guess it's probably funnier if you have spent some time around Case and know how he doesn't get too excited about a lot of things and how sneaky he can be...it was the look on his face and how he just walked out of the closet door like what he was doing was so normal...this is one of those moments that at first a was a little frightened not being able to find him, turning in to dumbstruck, then laughing and wanting to remember that moment forever!!! I love those boys...
Later I try to explain to Case that when we're yelling his name looking for him that he should respond and let us know where he's at because that was scaring momma...he just laughed and thought it was funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)