Every parent's nightmare is to lose their child- I share this same fear but today, only one single flash of it because I didn't know Liam was lost at all until I saw my friend Tammy with panic look on her face and Brendan at her side.
To set the scene, we were at the swim meet all morning, camped out on a sleeping bag with all of our stuff in the cafeteria, me in the hallway with Liam watching a movie and going in between to check on the kids. At one point, I ran to get a Diet Coke and when I came back Liam was gone. It didn't register at the time because he too had been going in between the cafeteria and the hallway (where I was) and I knew I would catch him if he ran by.
Randomly, a stranger struck up a conversation with me, completely distracting me from my task at hand. So, long story short, Tammy was running by to go get Liam- he was at the announcers table because he had been lost from me.
As soon as I scooped Liam up and knew that he was ok, the story started to unravel. I was laying on the couch this afternoon and Liam said "mom, there was a bald eagle at the pool today", I reponded with a, "what"? Then he elaborates by saying the Clare and her friend said that there was a bald eagle at the pool and that was how he got lost. In the words of a 3 year old, it is diffucult to unwind the facts from fiction. But as he retells what happened, Clare and her friend were trying to ditch him, so they decided to tell a little story about an eagle, which resulted in Liam going for a hunt of sorts and then realized he was lost. In his words, "the eagle was not in the pool, I didn't see it cause they were teasing me about that eagle.....then me just started to cry to see what was the matter and to just help me."
Good to know my wonderful, loveable, creative little Liam is safe and happy- when I found him he was drawing pictures of a fish next to one of the announcers with a big smile on his face. He said- there's my Mom, header!" (aka- Heather)
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