2 of the Scariest Moments of My Life

Yesterday my little bitty tiny town had what they call Granger Daze. It's basically a mini carnival type thing that I don't know if you can really classify it as a carnival. There are a few vendors that sell some food, there's a snow cone stand, and few inflatable rides, and clown show, pony rides. It's very small as the population in my town is around 600 and it's put on by locals. We just moved to this town a year and a half ago and we have loved it ever since. It's a great place so we decide to take the boys. I have been planning this for 2 weeks and everyone was looking very forward to it. We couldn't have pick a better day to go to an outside event. The actual temperature was 99 degrees, the humidity 75% with a heat index of 120 degrees, it was beautiful. (Insert sarcasm here)

The festivities started out at 6:30am with a pancake breakfast and a 5k run. HA HA, you're crazy if you think I participated in that. We decided to start out the day with the parade at 10. It was hotter than Hades. I was standing in the shade not moving and sweating my butt off. I don't even know for sure that I was sweating it may have just been condensation building up on my skin from the humidity. Anyway the boys had fun and got a ton of candy.

After that we walked up to were the inflatable rides were, got their wristbands for unlimited rides, (more like turns I would call in, I don't understand how you can "ride" an inflatable slide but you get the point). And they played. After about 45 minutes and 6 pounds of sweat later there was a clown show up the street in the shade so I made them take a break and go watch the clown show. Still hot but better. We had snow cones, got their face painted, rode the ponies, played a little more then decided to go back home and cool off and rest for a little while.

We got home and I made the boys lay down and watch a movie. They fell asleep. While they were sleeping I got a phone call that my mom's dog was scared and wouldn't come out from underneath the table and wanted to know if I could come out. My mom and the rest of my family went on vacation to Mount Rushmore. So I go to load up the boys and get ready to go and I walk in the room and say their names. 2 of the 3 pop up their little heads like they normally do. P3 (my 3 year old) didn't move. So I walk over to him put my hand on his shoulder and gently shake him and say his name again. Nothing. A little concerned now I shake him just a little harder and say his name a little louder. Nothing. At this point my heart has dropped into my stomach and I start shaking. Since I'm a medical worker I've taken a ton of CPR classes. So I grab a hold of him, shake him, and scream his name just like they teach you to do in CPR. Finally after a violent shaking and screaming his name his eyes open. I have never been so relieved to have one of my kids wake up from a nap before in my life. Scary moment #1

Everything else goes off without a hitch. My mom's dog was just scared that she had been abandoned and was much better after my trip out there. We are cooled off and feed so we go back up to the "rides".

While we are up there the kids are playing. They have the wristbands so they are free to go on the "rides" as they wish and we live in such a small town that you can give your kids a little freedom. My inter city instincts are still there a bit so I spend my time locating my kids constantly. I look for one, then the other, then the other, round and round until we are back home.

I had just located P6 (my 6 year old) going into the obstacle coarse so I move on and locate the others. I found all the rest of my kids so I start looking for P6 again. I don't see him. So I run through the rest to see if maybe he teamed up with one his brothers. Nope he's not with them. I do another quick scan locate the other's again, still don't see him so I start to get a little scared. I walk over to the last area I had seen him in and looked into the front of the obstacle coarse. Couldn't see him. I holler at my man and ask him if he can see him. He says he just seen him a few minutes ago but he doesn't now. My man walks over to where we last seen him (which was the same place I last seen him) and hollers. Nothing. Naturally I start getting scared again. I start walking in between the inflatables holler for him. After holler twice, I see P6's best friend stick his head out of the back of the obstacle coarse then a second later out pops P6's head. I guess there was an area in the back of the obstacle coarse that they made their club house and they were hanging out in there. Scary moment #2

I think it's safe to say that I'm going to be gray at a very early age and that's if I'm lucky enough to keep my hair. These kids are going to be the death of me. Gotta love them.