The Case of the Missing Sippy Cups

Have you seen these sippy cups? (actual sippy cups were missing at time of picture.)



We recently found ourselves in a sippy cup shortage. At first, we were only missing the occasional stopper. Then a lid would go MIA. Finally we were down to one sippy cup. One! This family cannot survive on one sippy cup! What was happening to them? Was there a sippy cup thief among us? Who could it be?

The suspects were difficult to photograph because they are constantly on the move. This is the best picture we could get of all three of them together:

WANTED FOR QUESTIONING











TIGGER, WINNIE, and EEYORE

After a housewide search, we came up empty handed. We were stumped. The trail had gone cold.

Then one day, the case broke in a most unexpected way. Tigger was upstairs in her room waking up from a nap. As I walked up the stairs to get her, I could hear her repeating in a loud voice, "I cyimb out, I cyimb out!" When I opened the door to her room, this is what I saw:










She was trying to get out of her crib! That night, Christopher Robin moved her mattress down to it's lowest setting. When he pulled out the crib mattress, what did he see? Four sippy cups! The case broke wide open and all three suspects caved under the intense investigation that followed. It turns out that Eeyore and Winnie were giving Tigger sippy cups filled with water while she was taking a nap, or before bedtime. Then, when Tigger was done with them, she would throw the cups behind her crib (This seems like a reasonable thing to do to me. They aren't very comfortable to sleep on, after all.) .

Mystery solved!

Now if we could only solve The Case of the Missing Sock!