What's With The Hiding?

Last Sunday (21/6/09; yes it was Father's Day but H says everyday is father's day.. heheh), we were at H's parents' house and H was helping Mama out with something while SILs and I veged out in the living room after a nicely heavy lunch when Gib started up the stairs to look for Baba.

I yelled out at him to come down because H wasn't upstairs and slowly got off my bum to chase after him. By the time I got to the staircase, he was at the top of the stairs (well he does move at lightning-speed yeah) and by the time I reached upstairs, he was nowhere to be seen. A few minutes prior to that, H and Gib played Hide and Seek and Gib had a ball. So Gib wanted to play some more.

I swear I looked everywhere I could think of and could not find him. You bet I got increasingly worried and yelled louder and louder for him to stop fooling around and come on out, it wasn't funny anymore and I didn't wanna play anymore. SIL#1 and H's Papa joined in the search and H hurried upsairs to help too when Papa suddenly found Gibran hiding in SIL#2's bathroom. I didn't think he could be hiding in there because the doors leading to that bathroom were shut tight, and Gibran usually hides in "obvious" places (like behind a wall, beside a bed or by a chair.. somewhere he can peek out from). He even had the nerve to push the bathroom door really hard when his Papa Tok tried to open the door! He was still busy pushing the door and shrieking at his Papa Tok to go away because "Nanti Mummy datang!!"... when I entered the bathroom from the other room and sneaked up on him from behind and gave him a good smack on the bum for being so dangerously cheeky.

Pffft. What a not-amusing incident! He couldn't understand why we were so mad (more like dead-worried okay!) and cried and cried for being scolded for wanting to play hide and seek. I told H no more hide and seek for now.

Then this evening when I was fetching Gibran from my parents' house (Dad took Gib and the maid over there while I went to the weekly class I like to attend), Dad told me that they had a real rucus for a while shortly before I arrived because Shamel went missing and they looked for him all over, to no avail. All three maids and four kids also helped look for Shamel. After a whole lot of shriekings and yellings, Dad heard a small voice softly saying; "Shamel kat sini....." and they found Shamel hiding behind my Sister's MPV. How they missed that spot noone knows. Everyone was just glad that he was found.

This hiding business is just not funny!

Now just as I thought that life's gotten really good since Gibran's learned to entertain himself without having us watch over him every second of the day like eagles... I'm just not too sure about the possibility of him not repeating the same scene he did the other day!

And with cousins like his....

Anything can happen when the kids get together.

Penatttt lah okayyyy. What will they do next..


Pictures taken during Sarah's 10th birthday party on Saturday 20/6/09.


And of course there has to be a photo of the birthday cake which yours truly made...