Alert, Alert

Between me working, the kids having classes and me working out we are at our YMCA a lot. It's a great place to be and my kids are VERY comfortable there. Most everyone knows them and it is like my village when it comes to raising my kids. Today I had a meeting and Dylan had to go into the daycare. It is not his favorite place right now so while I was chatting he decided to hide from me. I looked around for him for about 15 minutes or so and there were a few others that joined me. Soon, I became a little more worried. It is a pretty big place but I was sure that he was fairly close by. After several of us looked all around we called an ALERT, ALERT. This is the missing child code and all staff flock to the front desk to seek out the missing child. I have helped on many, many occasions searching for missing children but it was my turn to be the scared, crying mommy missing her little boy. The look on my co-workers faces when the discovered it was Dylan that was gone was even harder because you could see the look of panic that a loved one was missing. This is their funny little boy too. After searching for another 10 minutes or so he was finally found. By then we were both crying. And where was he? He had chosen a cupboard in one of our meeting rooms to hide in. I thought he must have gotten locked in there but no, just hiding really well. Several of us, including myself, had gone into that room calling for him. It was a very scary moment indeed. After all was settled down and carried him to daycare....no more hiding, at least for today! Thank you to everyone that helped look for him.