Hide and seek

I spent about six hours on Sunday watching Anna, our friends' two-year-old. I was initially concerned that there is nothing in my house to entertain a child, so they brought lots of toys and games and puzzles for her to play with. In the first half-hour, she had been through it all. We took another approach and the time flew by.

We went on a walk. We went to the playground. She chased Lucy around the house (and Lucy chased her). She ate dinner--and I forgot how long it takes for a kid to do that. She fed Lucy dinner. Can you sense a pattern?

The final 45 minutes of the evening were spent playing hide-and-seek. Anna and I would hide and Chad would come find us. (Usually Lucy found us first, but that's beside the point.)

Once Anna figured out how this worked, she was very in to the game. Every time we'd be found, she would scream, "Hide AGAIN!" On our final mission, I let her hide by herself. She wasn't terribly difficult to locate. Here's what it looked like: