Quiet..I'm Hiding..

My boys seem to be going through a phase. They seem to think that if they are quiet enough and announce themselves with "SHhhhh", I won't know they are up to no good.

Our most recent moment was during bed-time. I tucked my baby into his toddler bed. Loved on him and said goodnight. As I pulled the door shut, it didn't latch. I knew it hadn't, but left it. Knowing that once I was finished with his older -much more challenging brother, I could use it as an excuse to sneak an infamous Gettie kiss.

As I said my "luff-you's" and gave 'Mo's' to the Mo-tay, I heard the 'click' of a door being latched and the distinct swish-swish of a diapered child pass by. The sounds of a 'Shhh', filling the air.

I finished the task at hand, knowing something wasn't right. Certain that my youngest was not where I had left him....

I discovered him on the couch, hiding under a blanket. One eye..his left eye to be exact, peering out from under the blanket. Watching the television that had been left on. I let him get away with it for a few minutes. His sweet innocence. Convinced that if he shut the door to his bedroom, I would be none the wiser. That I would assume he had drifted off to sleep behind the closed door. I most definitely would not notice the mysterious blanket with a case of the wiggles.

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