For Father’s Day 2011, Nate, Sam and Mommy got Daddy a ham­mer drill. On the day that we pur­chased it Mom told her four year old Nate that we would keep this a sur­prise until Father’s Day so he shouldn’t say any­thing to Daddy about it. We wrapped it that day and Mom left it on the table (wait­ing for Nate to draw on the wrap­ping paper). Towards the end of the day, we vis­ited our neigh­bor. Unfor­tu­nately Daddy came home from work while we were at our neighbor’s house. He stopped by our neigh­bors to say hello, then Nate and Daddy went to the house. Nate entered first and imme­di­ately became pan­icked.
Nate: Dad, Mom left out some­thing that you can’t see! Don’t look.
Dad: It’s okay Nate, I won’t look, I’ll look out the door. You are going to have to hide it.
Nate: I don’t know where.
Dad: Hide it in your room some­where.
Nate: But Dad I can’t lift the big one.
Dad: (Peek­ing towards the table) Are they wrapped?
Nate: Yes.
Dad: Okay I can help.
Nate gets the two smaller presents and car­ries them to his room Dad car­ries the big present. When they get to his room Dad says “Nate, I think you could carry this one, it is not too heavy.“
Nate takes it from Dad and says “Dad I can lift it!“
Nate ‘hides’ the gifts in his closet. Then they go in the liv­ing room to read some sto­ries.
A few min­utes later, Mom comes home. Daddy briefly explains what hap­pened and how they “hid” the presents. As soon as Daddy fin­ishes telling the story Nate says excit­edly “Mom I can lift the drill!”

Oh well, guess the secret wasn’t meant to be.