Take 2x daily and call me in the morning.

Aiden disappeared today. Twice. I'm surprised my hair is still brown.


Round 1: The Warm-up. We were at church. He was by the stairs, I turned around for three seconds, and he was gone. I sighed, and figured he just ran up ahead of me. But when I got to the top, he wasn't anywhere around. So I started looking through the crowd of people, but didn't find him. Then I got a little concerned, because he has gotten outside before, and gone in the road. Not a real busy road, but traffic nonetheless.


No Aiden outside where I can see.


Back inside. Call his name. Check all the Sunday School rooms, twice. People go outside looking, people help me search the sanctuary. Finally, I went running back upstairs, and someone said they found him hiding behind the pulpit. Apparently he wanted to play hide and seek, and forgot to mention that to me.


So, all's well that ends well. Right?


Round 2: The Terror. He was out in the yard with Michael and Parker. Michael turned around, Aiden was gone. He came and asked me if I had him. Nope, not here. We started calling his name, sometimes he goes over into the neighbor's yard. Not so great, but at least not far. Nope, not there either.


I'm starting to get concerned at this point, and tell Michael to go one way while I go another. I'd seen some kids (teens) walking earlier and thought maybe Aiden would have followed them. He's a friendly guy, and curious, and thinks that he should be doing whatever anyone else is doing. So I started a fast trot holding Parker, and screaming Aiden's name every few seconds.


There were a few people out, I asked them if they'd seen him, and someone was kind enough to call the cops. Thank you, whoever you are, it's really nice to know that people are willing to look out for each other.


Parker and I made it through the tunnel, over to Rose Lane, when I couldn't walk anymore. I stopped in on an old friend to use her phone to see if Michael had found him. Yup, he got him. Thank God.


I'm chaining him to a tree after this.