Hide and Seek

I'm sure most parents can relate to this. I think it's funny but frustrating at the same time. Evan loves to clean when we ask him too. There are times when he picks things up on his own and most of the time I'm not watching him do it. I think he's a great help but there have been occasions when he's thrown valuable things away! So far it's just our TV remote. Not quit sure if that's where it ended up but most likely because we turned our home upside down and it's been 6 months. Maybe even longer. We just came to the conclusion that he did toss it in the trash because we saw him throw things out. He thinks it's funny. We salvaged a number of things because of it. I always make a point to look in the trash every time I'm throwing something out. We have a lid on it and do a good job in keeping it shut but we're not perfect at it. Recently I borrowed a DVD from my sister and one day I wanted to watch it one more time before I had to take it back to her. I went to go get it and it was no where. Matt helped me look for it and everything. After two days of searching everywhere in the house I thought it was time to go dig outside in the trash can before we had to take the can out to the street. Unfortunately it wasn't there. I can't believe how disgusting a garbage can, can get. I hoped I wouldn't have to do that again. A few days later Matt couldn't find one of his sandals. Evan loves going into our closet to play with our shoes so we thought the worst. I did go looking in the trash for it again. Since Matt has the one pair I wanted to go out and buy him another pair but I couldn't find the time to go do it. Luckily I didn't because last weekend we were getting ready for two youth in our Stake to stay at our house for two days during a Missionary activity. We were getting our air mattress out of our basement and we ended up finding the sandal in our cooler. Yesterday I wanted to watch a movie that I haven't seen since I was a little girl. It's one of the few movies we have that's still in VHS format so we hardly ever use our VHS player. There was a tape already in there so I had to take it out but it wouldn't. After a few attempts to get it out by my fingers, I lifted the door up and I saw a disk in there. It happened to be the DVD I was looking for! The tape came out after that so I put in the tape I wanted to watch but it wouldn't go in. I looked in there once again and there were two more DVDs that Evan hid from us. He had the right idea but too bad they were in the wrong part! I'm hoping our TV remote will show up one day but it's been 6 months so I don't think that's going to happen.