One of our favorite games is hide-and-seek deep-woods-style. Hide-and-seek is always fun, but it's even more fun if the person who starts the game doesn't tell anyone else that we're playing.
One minute you're walking through the woods hand in hand with the love of your life....kids running ahead looking at this and that...
All of a sudden it's real quiet, and it takes at least a minute before anyone realizes that we're gone.
The first one to notice our absence knows right away - GAME ON.
He begins his search in silence so he doesn't tip off of the siblings up ahead.
When he finds us, he hides, too.
until we're all crouched down behind a tree that's no longer big enough.
Within seconds we hear the humming of the ATV. A big boy is coming. What perfect timing! He has no idea we're playing a game.
Dean signals everyone to "hush" as we hear the ATV approaching. Blake is looking for us. He doesn't know we're hiding. The fact that he doesn't know makes the hiding even more fun.
Miraculously Blake doesn't see 10 people crouched in a pile behind a skinny pine tree.
The humming of the ATV fades as he heads back to the house. That's no fun!! I send him a text. We've got to have a seeker and all the young ones have become hiders.
Blake doesn't respond. Hmmmm, that's odd. He's all about this game. Still, the humming doesn't return and the hiders become restless. Before we give up the game, though, I give my Blake a ring.
"Hi, baby. Whatch doin'?"
"I'm looking for y'all, " he says.
"Um, I didn't hear the ATV?"
"I'm on foot, " he replies.
Sneaky boy! Time to hang up and huddle close.
Not 5 minutes later, he's won. The boy doesn't even bother putting on jeans and shoes. Apparently he's pretty confident of victory.
GAME OVER! Time to head through the mud hole and back to the house.
One minute you're walking through the woods hand in hand with the love of your life....kids running ahead looking at this and that...
...and the next thing you know you're being dragged off the trail and through the woods in search of a tree to hide behind.
All of a sudden it's real quiet, and it takes at least a minute before anyone realizes that we're gone.
He begins his search in silence so he doesn't tip off of the siblings up ahead.
When he finds us, he hides, too.
Next comes a chain reaction as one after another finds us....
until we're all crouched down behind a tree that's no longer big enough.
Dean signals everyone to "hush" as we hear the ATV approaching. Blake is looking for us. He doesn't know we're hiding. The fact that he doesn't know makes the hiding even more fun.
Miraculously Blake doesn't see 10 people crouched in a pile behind a skinny pine tree.
The humming of the ATV fades as he heads back to the house. That's no fun!! I send him a text. We've got to have a seeker and all the young ones have become hiders.
Blake doesn't respond. Hmmmm, that's odd. He's all about this game. Still, the humming doesn't return and the hiders become restless. Before we give up the game, though, I give my Blake a ring.
"Hi, baby. Whatch doin'?"
"I'm looking for y'all, " he says.
"Um, I didn't hear the ATV?"
"I'm on foot, " he replies.
Sneaky boy! Time to hang up and huddle close.
Not 5 minutes later, he's won. The boy doesn't even bother putting on jeans and shoes. Apparently he's pretty confident of victory.
GAME OVER! Time to head through the mud hole and back to the house.
Good times with Team Robinson, indeed!
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