Hide and Seek

These days, Juniper is interested in playing hide and seek, but she's still got a ways to go before she has truly mastered the game. She will often announce where she is going to hide, and she sometimes gets agitated if I start counting too soon: "don't count until I'm hiding!" Most endearing of all is her complete inability to imagine the scene from the other person's point of view. She knows that you can hide behind trees, but it doesn't occur to her that she needs to hide on the opposite side of the tree, away from the seeker. During a recent hide and seek game, I opened my eyes after counting, and this is what I saw: