How old were you?

So today I experienced another joy of parenting, one that I thought would be in at least 3 years from now. For those of you who don't know my daughter I will start out by telling you that she is rather smart and very sneaking and mischievous. Yes, she has been since she was born. For example; when she went to day care around the age of two it was picture time and hot outside, she really wanted to wear her black long sleeved velvet dress and I said no. I had a cute outfit put together for her and she wore that to school. I let her take her dress to school because she was being picked up by her dad to go to his house for the week and she wanted to wear it, that made her very happy. Well a few weeks later her school pictures came home and they were very cute except for the long sleeved black velvet dress with a spring back ground, her purple underneath and a really sneaky smile on her face. She told her teacher that she was suppose to change and wear that for pictures, so she got her way after all. I totally took that dress away. Anyway back to my story of today. Makaela walks the .2 miles from my house to school along the way she picks up her friends. Today her one friend was riding a bike and she was riding her scooter, well the bike goes faster than her and she does not like that at all. So she left to find different friend to walk with. (This new friend being Dixie) About 10 o'clock this morning I looked at my caller ID and noticed a missed call from the Elementary school. I contemplated calling them back for a minute and it just kept bothering me because either she had a problem, but why didn't she call my cell phone, or she didn't make it to school. I know most of you don't have kids old enough so just so you know the schools call automatically at a mark absent. I called the school and the secretary asked who my daughter was. Here is what she said. " Oh Makaela. You know what happened is her and her little friend Dixie decided to hide out in Dixie's closet and not go to school today. When her mom got out of the shower she found them hiding in there eating their lunches." WHAT THE HELL! That is about the only thing that came to my mind, I kindly told the lady thank you and hung up the phone, pretty much with tears welling up in my eyes. Seriously, how do kids at the age of 8 know those kinds of tricks? Am I just blind to how much they know and learn at there age or is she a genius? I bet she was hungry come lunch time though. So now that I have spilled the beans on my naughty girl I just wanted everyones thoughts, not that I will let her know but I get a good laugh at it to. Now that I have collected my temper. So fess up and tell me at what age did you first ditch school, or try to ditch school in her case! I swear the generations are getting smarter and more advanced as we speak so watch out to those of you who are just beginning, or not even beginning yet (Brianna). Punishment is sure to arrive when she gets home from school at approximately 3:45.