Lost

Today has been a fun and crazy day for us! Justin got to go on his FIRST kindergarten field trip to the Oregon Zoo. He was counting down the days all year and said they had a great time.

Ty and I went on a "quick" shopping trip to Target this morning. I needed to find some coordinating shirts for the boys to wear when they get their pictures taken tomorrow morning. Tyler was walking next to me...O.K., I was trying to hold his hand and he was trying to get away as we were looking in the boys section. We were standing next to the clearance rack and I grabbed one shirt off the rack as he continued around the same rack. I continued walking (without stopping) around the same rack to continue shopping with him right next to me. When I got around to the other side, he had VANISHED! I quickly looked around the racks close by and looked below expecting to see him hiding from me. Nothing! I started to panic and hurried to the main isle. Nothing! There was one lady with her child in the boys section and I quickly asked her if she had seen a little guy in a blue hooded jacket. She hadn't seen anyone. My heart dropped.

I looked around again and headed over to the baby section. Two red-shirted Target employees were standing there so I hurried over to tell them I had lost my son. The girl looked at me with worry in her eyes and spoke into her walkie-talkie "CODE YELLOW repeat CODE YELLOW!" She asked for a description of Tyler and I was so glad that I actually remembered what I had dressed him in today. She asked me to come with her quickly to the front. By then I was trying not to cry and kept telling myself that we'd find him while praying that he'd be o.k. Every minute felt like five and finally I asked, "Should I just start walking around to find him, too?" It seemed weird to ask her permission to search for my child. She said, "No, you need to stay here so we can watch the doors in case anyone tries to walk out with him." I felt so helpless just standing there looking around. But I was so glad that there was only one main exit.

The girl asked me to give her another description of Ty. I started telling her about him as a man and a woman were on their way out of the store. The man turned around and asked, "Little blond guy?" I said, "Light brown hair?" He said, "Yeah, he just about plowed me over back by the DVDs and Cd's." I thanked him and the girl told security to check in that area. Throughout all this time, I kept hearing an update from security with an area and "clear". That was the worst! Then, thankfully, I saw Tyler walking past the cashier stations towards the dollar section and the main entrance. I think he would have tried to walk right out of the store if I hadn't been right there. I gasped, "Oh, that's him! Thank you!" and ran over to him. He looked at me like "What's the big deal?" He wasn't worried at all. Sigh! If he only knew what he just did to me!

I told him I didn't know where he went and that I was worried about him. I told him he needed to stay close to me while we are shopping. He said "O.K., Mom" and then ran the other way weaving into the clothing racks again. Aargh! I scooped him up and we went to get a cart. I plopped him in the back and we hurried back to the kids section to try to find those crazy shirts. Now I'm sure those shirts are fine, I'm just really flustered at that point. Tyler started trying to get out of the cart and so I let him help me push it. He took that as a ticket to run again. After chasing him around the clothes again, I grabbed the first white shirt I saw that was in his size and we b-lined it right to the express checkout. The cashier knew what I had just been through and she offered to put my cart away for me. Bless her.

I was all shaky for the next hour. What an adrenaline rush! I called Travis on the way home to tell him what had happened. I'd like to say he was surprised, but he wasn't. He said, "You know what? He we totally lost him at the father/son camp out last weekend." (Now he tells me...) I guess Travis had asked his friend to watch Tyler while he went to help Justin in the bathroom. Well, the friend turned his back for a second and Tyler vanished! Travis ended up finding him over by all the cars. He said Ty kept trying to take off the whole time and was relieved to get back home so he could take off his hawk eyes. Well I know for sure I can't take this one shopping by myself anymore. Those kid leashes sure sound like a good idea to me today.

We picked up Travis on the way home so he could have lunch with Ty while I hurried off to a hair appointment. Travis is so great to come work from home for a while here and there when I need to go to an appointment or something. When I got home I found that I can type this fast with two boys wrestling next to me and bumping the computer while Justin is repeating each word I type several seconds after I typed it...

68 words

Speed test

You know that's not my final score. I'm going to keep taking this speed test until I get into the 70's at least. What's your score? It's good practice anyway.

So, after the whole typing escapade we went to cheer Justin on at his Kball game and then I got to go to book club. It was a great end to a crazy busy day!

I'll post a picture tomorrow...I'm bushed!