lost

I have never lost a child in a store…until today!  I took all the kids to Wal-Mart and as we were walking to the cash registers Sam ran ahead to the water fountain.  As I was checking out I look over at the water fountain and don’t see Sam.  So I tell Max and Kye to go look for her.   When they said they couldn’t find her I assumed she went into the bathroom, which is next to the water fountains.  So I finish paying and getting our stuff and walk into the bathroom to find Sam, but she wasn’t there.  Now I am beginning to panic.  Where would she have gone?  So I find an employee and tell them I can’t find my 4 year old.  They get on the radio and announce a Code Adam.  The only problem is I couldn’t remember what she was wearing.  I thought she had blue shorts and pink shirt, but Max thought it was pink shorts.  Finally an employee came on the radio saying they had a little girl in the dressing rooms.  We go back to the fitting rooms and there was Sam.  She was crying and scared.  She said she didn’t know where we were.  We have never talked about it before, but she did the right thing.  She told the employees at the dressing rooms that she couldn’t find her mom.  It all happened in about a 5 minute time period, but it was the longest 5 minutes ever!  It turned out Max was right…she was wearing pink shorts with a blue shirt.