Lost

Children seem to create black holes where they magically lose all kinds of things. It's really rather amazing. Yesterday we had a minor catastrophe in our house when Grace lost one of her ballet shoes and we spent 30 minutes hunting the house for it before giving up and missing her ballet class. I have to admit that I got pretty frustrated and even after turning the house inside out am loathe to have to spend yet another $15 on a new pair of ballet shoes.

A short list of lost items past and present:

• One pink ballet shoe in size 7
• One blue alligator sock in size 6-12 months
  
• One very special green bunny that tragically went missing at Safeway
• The purple beanie baby cow (turned up under my pillow the day after Grace insisted she couldn't go to sleep without it)
• The toy monkey from the play mat
• Too many hair bows to count
• The yellow comb
• A toy cell phone was lost in Target
• Dora's yellow shoe
• My sanity