they once were lost but now are found!

They've been missing for over a month. I looked everywhere for them, and was so frustrated that I couldn't find them. She's asked for them at least once a day and always got sad when I told her I didn't know where they were.

So today she was playing with her aquadoodle and dropped the water pen to the side of her play house. I kept hearing "Mommy, ge' it? Mommy, ge' it?" so I went to see what she wanted me to get. She said, "Cayon," (crayon--what she calls all pens and pencils!), so I knew what was missing.

I pulled the house away from the wall. As I moved the house I heard something move behind the other wall of the house. I got the water pen and went around to the other side to see what had fallen.

Lo and behold, what did I find but the missing beads!

She was SO excited! And I was so relieved to finally know what had happened to them. She put them all on one by one right away and ran around the house shouting, "beads! beads!" Then she took them off and put them on Mommy one by one. I was a little less thrilled in my response to having them on, but enjoyed her enthusiasm!