Yesterday, another angel came by to bring our family dinner.  My husband was at soccer practice and swim team with H1 and H2 and I was home alone with H3.  H3 decided that it would be funny to play shy and run off when my friend arrived.  While we were visiting for a few moments that Mommy instinct kicked in and reminded me that my 3 year old was way too quiet, so I called for him to come and eat some dinner.  No answer.  I called out that it was his favorite cheese pizza.  Complete silence.  I walked down the hall and looked for him in some places that he sometimes hides.  He was nowhere to be found as he usually giggles or leaves his foot hanging out of his hiding place.  He still thinks that if he cannot see you with his eyes you cannot see him.  I panicked and it alarmed my friend as well.  She immediately went out the front door and looked down the sidewalk to see if had decided to go out the door.  We were calling for him and tearing the house apart looking in closets and bathrooms and bedrooms.  We could not find him anywhere,  I knew in my heart that he was okay and that only a couple of minutes had passed or so it seemed,  My friend agreed with me that he had run down the hall when she came in and there is no way for him to escape from the house in that direction.  I was ready to call the police because I was seriously worried that we could not hear him and he had not given up his hiding spot yet and I was not completely sure that he had not snuck out the front door while we put the dinner in the kitchen.  We kept looking with our hearts beating through our chests when we heard a slight rustle in the hall bathroom.  I had alrady been in there 4 or 5 times looking in the tub and even the clothes hamper.  We both froze to see if we heard anything else and then we both heard a slight giggle.  I ran in there and I still did not see him.  He poked his little face out of the shower curtain that was pulled back.  He had wrapped himself up in there so I did not see him when I went in looking for him 4 or 5 times.  He didn't even make a noise.  Boy, was he proud of himself!  I could not help but laugh mainly because I was so relieved and because it was such a clever hiding spot. 

So much for the lifting restrictions that my doctor placed on me following my surgery.  In the midst of looking for him I lifted up all kinds of things that I had no business pulling at or lifting.  It is just something that mommies do when we think our children are in trouble.  I am a little sore today and hopefully no damage was done.  Today was the first day that my husband went back to work without my Mom here helping me with the boys and the housework.  I kept my little man close by today.  I was not in the mood for another round of hide and go seek.  I had no idea he was so good at the game.