Flashback #1 "The Amazing Paige"

Every now and again I will post a little story, a flash back if you will, of something Paige has said or done. It seems with age, her antics get funnier and funnier and it would be a shame not to recap the past 4 years..

With that, I give you "The Amazing Paige"

When Paige was just about three, she was sleeping in a toddler bed. As much of a big girl as it made her feel, it was pure hell for me for awhile having to remind her not to get out of bed several times a night. After a while, my simply opening the door would do the trick and she would lay down...for a while.

One evening in particular I had been having an especially tough time with her. Having to go up to her room 4 times already, on this, the 5th trip I was pretty annoyed.

I swung open her door and found her bedding tossed about, stuffed animals discarded and no Paige.

I thought quickly, had I heard her walking around? No. With the hardwood floor in our house and her bedroom directly above where I was in the basement, had she opened her door or left her room I would know.

Suddenly, once i realized she couldn't have left her room panic rushed over me and I felt like I was living in one of those Lifetime Original Movies about kidnapped children.

I went to the closet, looked under the bed, when I heard a giggle, followed by "I'm hiding Mommy"

Okay. Have you seen Poltergeist? Where the little girl talks through the TV to her mom...what was going on in her room was a little like that.

I looked in the direction of her voice, which was coming straight from her bed. Nothing was on her bed but a pillow, and I really started to believe I was losing my mind. Was I hearing things?

Then I saw the pillow move. And a little toe poked out the bottom of it. And I realized Paige was INSIDE the pillow case, sitting at the head of her bed, pretending to actually be her pillow!!! I didn't even know a child could FIT in a standard sized pillow case.

I yanked it off her head, told her to go back to sleep, made the bed back up then got out of there as fast as I could because I was on the verge of laughing uncontrollably. Half out of relief and half because....she actually climbed inside the pillow case to hide from me! Who does that?

SHe may have a good chance of becoming a magician someday.