A house of secrets

As I have told a few of you, Cadence is an expert at hiding things. And often, I will later find a pile of random toys that she snuck into the bathroom, her bedroom, under her crib, behind my bedroom door and so on. Usually I find the pile by tripping over it, or by not being able to open the bathroom door. At that point, I find a pile of random stuffed animals, dinosaurs, horses, guns, and cars. Basically anything that Bishop likes that she can sneak out of his room or the play area without him noticing.

It has recently come to our attention that Bishop is also big into hiding things. Under the dining room table. Usually he sneaks things under there to eat them in secret. He found a bag of candy once, and he took it under the table, and as I was looking around for him, I found him huddled with the bag of chocolate. Yesterday he took the box of fruit snacks off the kitchen counter, and was eating them under the table. The part that I don't understand is that he can have most anything he wants if he eats his lunch/dinner. The only time I really tell him no is if he hasn't had dinner yet, or only ate a little bit. So really, no reason to sneak the food.

And then, the best time was today. Zach was packing for his trip and asked Bishop if he knew where his hacky-sack is. Bishop said, "Oh, yeah." Then promptly went out to the dinning room table, and pulled out the hacky-sack from underneath one of the overhangs. We were shocked that 1. He is for real stashing things under there and 2. that he actually remembers where he put it.

It's like his secret fort that he is taking things to. So bizarre.

He also adores playing Star Wars Battle Station on Playstation. He came and got in bed with us at 6:30 this morning and wanted to play "The game" as he calls it. He doesn't like watching movies, he just wants to play the game. And the best part is? He is actually pretty good. And he actually wins sometimes. It is pretty incredible.