This Could Mean Trouble

We've been having a lot of fun celebrating Christmas and the New Year at Gram and Gramps house and those posts are coming soon.  However, we have to interrupt our regularly scheduled holiday posting for a bit of a mystery.

The mystery began one afternoon when Ian and I had gone out shopping and Gram and Gramps were staying home with the boys.  Ben was up sleeping in his room and Evan was relaxing in the recliner watching a movie.  Sounds like a pretty typical naptime routine.  However, this is where it gets weird.  Evan looked at Gram and said that he was really sleepy.  He said he needed to go up to his bed and take a nap.  This never happens!

So, Gram and Gramps obliged and took him upstairs, tucked him in bed, and left the room.  Soon after, Gram heard Benny fussing, so she popped in his room and settled him.  While she was upstairs, she decided to check on Evan.  She peeked in his room and he was gone!  Needless to say, Gram was concerned and spent the next few minutes searching in every nook and cranny upstairs because she knew he couldn't open the gate to get downstairs.  Evan was nowhere to be found!

Gram was getting very nervous.  Where could Evan be?  Then, she thought about the only place she hadn't checked, Ben's room.  She went in there, and sure enough he was hiding behind the bed.  Evan immediately burst into hysterics because he knew he'd been caught.  Once he calmed down he admitted to hiding behind the curtains and the bed when Gram came in to settle Ben.

We still have no idea why he went in there in the first place.  This was the first time he had really ever left his bed while he was supposed to be sleeping without calling to us first.  And why did he want to go upstairs and take a nap in the first place?  The mystery doesn't end there.  That night, when Evan got ready for bed he was no longer wearing his underwear.  We couldn't find them anywhere and Evan didn't know where they were.  Sure enough when Ian looked in Benny's room behind the curtain, there they were!

Who knows what Evan was thinking!  However, it leads me to believe that 3.5 years old will be a very interesting age.  We're waiting to see what he does next!

(Evan shows off the "big boy pants" in TN several days before he hides them behind the curtain.)