First the Goat, Then the Piggy

For their first birthday, Tiny and Buba received the Little People Animal Sounds Farm from their great-aunt. They didn’t play with it much at first, but recently Buba has been playing with it a lot. He knows all the animals and likes to show them to me and tell me what sounds they make. The only problem is, he also likes to throw them.

Maybe it’s just a little boy thing, but Buba likes to throw toys over the baby gates. And strangely enough, he seems to throw the ones he prefers most often. He’ll be playing happily with a toy at my feet while I’m working in the kitchen, and then as soon as I step over the gate to go to the bathroom, Buba will run up to the gate and throw the toy over. Almost like a screw you gesture. But then he stands at the gate and whines until I retrieve the toy and hand it back to him.

But sometimes, the toys disappear. I hear them drop over the gate, but I don’t see them. Sometimes they roll and end up behind a door or under the furniture. And sometimes they spark the interest of our cat and get carried off to only-she-knows-where. Of course, we usually find them days after we stop looking for them.

However, this has not been the case with the beloved farm animals. Earlier this week, the goat went missing. And then yesterday, we lost the pig too. I don’t know if Buba threw them somewhere or what. We’ve looked in all the usual places and some unusual ones too, but the goat and piggy are nowhere to be found.

How does this happen? I have no idea. But if you happen to see our goat or piggy, please send them home. Buba misses them.