Badi By Moonlight

[billroper]

One of the bad things that can happen around the house is if Badi, Katie's blankie, is nowhere to be found come bedtime. And a bad thing happened. We looked upstairs. No Badi. We looked downstairs. No Badi.

I looked in the garage. I looked in the van. Still no Badi.

I looked in the front yard. No Badi, but I did get to turn off the hose that Katie had turned on earlier in the day.

I wanted to go look in the back yard. But Katie had wandered downstairs to help look for Badi and nothing I could say was going to get her to go back and look upstairs again. So I finally bit the bullet, headed out the back door, and closed it behind me, hoping that Katie wouldn't manage to follow.

She didn't. So I looked in the empty deck box that Katie likes to hide in. It was very empty.

I put all the things that were supposed to be back in the deck box back in the deck box. *sigh*

Ok, Badi has got to be somewhere. And the Moon is nearly full tonight.

As I walked down the yard, I saw a suspiciously irregular gray shape shining on top of the enormous transformer box that Katie likes to climb up on. I headed over, picked up Badi, slightly damp with dew, and brought it back in to Katie.

And Katie -- after two Curious George stories -- is now happily in bed.

With Badi.

Comments

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

*And* the hose is turned off. Good all around.

[billroper]

Oh, yeah. Although the hose was watering the new yews, so the water wasn't being wasted. :)

Favorite blankets, stuffed kitties, etc.

[zencuppa.livejournal.com]

I remember my ex husband's chagrin, when he forgot to take Nick's favorite stuffed Kitty (Baba), when they lived in China for a summer.

Needless to say, Tom did take it the next summer, when he and Nick went there a second time *grin.*

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

So, I have been known to call loveys like Badi by name as I search for them (without kids within hearing range.) Do you do that, too?

That type of search seems soooo familar to me (and I'm sure, many parents.)

[billroper]

Oh, yeah. Although it's more like me walking around going, "Ok, where's the Badi hiding?"