unsolved mystery

tonight spencer and colby went out front to play. they'd been gone a really long time, so i went outside to check on them. their scooter and bike were in the driveway, and i could hear their voices. i looked across the street at the house that's under construction and saw spencer coming around from the back with a hoe in his hand. busted.

i almost just turned around and walked back in the house because i was afraid to ask what they were up to. but curiosity got the best of me, and i asked, "what are you doing?"

i got the same answer from both of them....looking for colby's shoe.

photo of the day #225

digging for a flip flop

i'm still not real sure how it got lost, but here's the story i got:

they were chasing a rabbit, and he went behind that house. the rabbit went into a tunnel (hole), and when colby stepped on top of it, the tunnel collapsed. his foot went down in the dirt, and when he pulled his foot out, the shoe was gone. they dug a trench looking for his flip flop! i went out there and helped a little bit with no luck. i was still just dumbfounded about the whole story! it made NO sense! it was almost like he'd stepped in quick sand!!

i sent daryl out there to help. i told him that since he's a boy, maybe he could better understand what happened to the shoe and could help them find it. about 15 minutes they all came back. daryl was just shaking his head, and colby was crying. they didn't find the shoe, and colby had to throw his other flip flop in the trash. for some reason he loved those flip flops!

(this is how he looked the rest of the night...mad!)

i still don't understand how it just disappeared like that!

quote of the day: "A boy's story is the best that is ever told." ~Charles Dickens