Being the week before Christmas everything was busy; the day he lost it I was doing holiday baking and I was getting really frustrated that every time I asked him for something he was on that stupid 3DS. At one point I got mad and told him to put it down right now and (fill in blank with whatever was pressing at the moment), so he did, and then we never found it again.
Until last night that is. We had pretty much given up on it, assuming someone had thrown it out somehow by accident. Then last night daughter threw a fit about a nightlight, something she never uses, and while searching for that I found the 3DS. In the oddest place.
Yup there it was! Sitting in a tin! In plain view! On top of the kitchenette in daughter's bedroom!
Now imagine how utterly stupid I am feeling right now. I had cleaned this room countless times and never, not once opened these tins. I moved them to clean around them, but never opened them.
As far as we can figure she got mad at her brother for something and hid it, then when she was asked if she knew where it was she simply forgot.
Our son is ecstatic that he finally got it back, especially as he got 2 new games for Christmas and his sister got her own 3DS. But I am telling you we now have designated spots where they are kept when not in use.
Great story! LOL. My kids have DS's also, so I can relate. My daughter has lost hers so many times. And broken three of them now (two 3DS (one was her brother's) and one 2DS. She's currently saving her allowance for a new 2DS!)
ReplyDeleteOne time we lost the remote to the DVD player. My daughter discovered it in the fall/Halloween box a year later. I looked EVERYWHERE for it!
Daughter lost our Dish Network remote when she was a toddler (we don't pay for any TV now). She put it in a wood potato bin that had a little cubby (on the front, at floor level) with a little pull down door. We never used the little cubby because it was too awkward to get stuff in and out without having to get down on your hands and knees. She had simply forgot where she stashed it. (She would stash it occasionally, just to get a rise out of her dad.) Thankfully that was found after only a few months, and having to order a new remote. (DN charged us $20 for a new one!)
~Jessica