“Where go?”
“Where?”
“Der-is!!”
The one-sided conversation above takes place roughly 100 times a day at our house. It involves Cordy taking some object, sticking it down in between the cushions of the couch, and then playing the “Where’d it go?” game. Adult participation is encouraged, but not required. If we don’t play along, she’ll just keep going as if she had an audience. Finally she’ll pull it out of the couch and happily exclaim “Der-is!” 
This advanced toddler version of peek-a-boo is leading to a very uncomfortable couch, as well as several missing items. Because while she often enjoys revealing what she just hid in the deep recesses of the sofa, there are other times she loses interest after placing an object out of sight.
After a long game of “Where’d it go?” this morning, I decided it was once again time to empty out the couch. The contents?
– Two sample packs of Pampers wipes
– One of Aaron’s shirts
– A pen that has a bubble wand on the other end
– A page of a book, ripped out by Cordy
– Two wooden blocks
– A hairbrush
– A GameBoy cartridge
– A bill from our HOA (whoops! Gotta pay that one!)
– Two pieces of junk mail
– One long-lost sippy cup (ugh, sour milk!)
– Swiper (no swiping!)
– One shoe (the other nowhere to be found)
– One dishtowel
– Six cheerios
– One goldfish cracker
– One cat toy
– The Tivo remote
– Three Little People and one Little People car
– One plastic carrot
Yes, seriously. The kid was on a roll today. I felt like I was doing an archeological dig through our sofa.
I guess it takes a child to show us that objects can have more uses other than that which they are designed for. For Cordelia, the sofa is a cushy purple repository for all the crap she doesn’t feel like looking at for the moment.
I’m ready to dig, lady.
She sounds like my daughter. Who at nine, stuffs everything under her bed: dirty laundry, apple cores, books, garbage etc…
I call it out of site-out of mind-make my mother crazy- syndrome.
Oh the couch always has evil within it.
I must admit, I have found my share of sour milk sippy cups in and under the couch! EWW!
I know what to send you for Cordy’s next birthday… a Pith helmet with a light on top for her next spelunking expedition. 🙂
Hey, mine does that too!
Hey, she KNEW you didn’t wanna pay that bill….what a good kid! LOL
My bets for the other shoe:
between your matress & box springs
buried in a large potted plant
fireplace
toilet
Good luck finding it! LOL
Ha! I hope you threw the sippy cup away! :0
I don’t even want to know what’s in my sofa…probably a science experiment is going on in there!
Cute pic of your little archeologist!
Oh that’s hilarious!
My sister (who does home child care) gave us her old couch. We are still digging legos, barbie heads, cars, pokemon cards, etc. out of the cushions. It’s like new treasures appear every time we sit down!
Ha ha ha ha ha! That is awesome. Hey, would you guys happen to have our red Tupperware sippy cup in your couch? It’s been missing for three weeks now… I’m scared… By now it seems entirely possible that it *might* have sprouted legs and walked itself to Columbus!
I avoid the recesses of my couch at all costs! I can’t even imagine what’s down there. Actually, I can and that’s why I don’t go near it!
the phrase of the house
“‘er did it go” over and over until I was obnoxious. and he asks it a million times a day, just like Cordy
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Wow, she sure hid a lot in your couch! LOL. On a serious note, you weren’t without your TIVO remote for too long I hope. That would be terrible.
t. – So this is what I have to look forward to? Drive mom crazy syndrome is right!
Mrs. Chicky – Dude, a pith helmet with a light would be awesome! Then I could send her spelunking under the bed!
Emily – Found the other shoe – she put it in her diaper bag.
Mommy off the record – Oh no, I couldn’t go without the Tivo remote for long. It was there for only a few hours.
Domesticator – The sippy was salvaged, thanks to our dishwasher.
Violet – Hmmm…let me check for it and I’ll get back to you! 🙂
Meg – Ewww…someone else’s junk in the couch!
Jerri Ann, Rhonda, Petite Mommy – Nice to know my child isn’t the only one. 🙂
Cordiana Jones and the Sofa of Doom!
Mmmmm….maybe I should check my cushions, I did have company over this weekend.
We mostly don’t start searching for toys, baby stuff, etc until the toy box starts looking suspiciously low. We then spelunk under our furniture and rescue all of the lost items.
I heart your blog! You are an inspiration. I have been so blog lazy lately.