The Disappearance of Ammon

Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Disappearance of Ammon

Pictures taken July 15, 2009

My sister and I took our children to the Riverton Library for story time. It was a princess theme so it seemed like it would be more for her girls than for my boys. Still, it was something to do out of the heat. And my boys always love a chance to play with thier cousins.

It turned out that the princess did an amazing job including princes too and I think all of the kids had a great time. The story time was really meant for children 3 and older so I took Peter and kept him in the children's area while the other children were listening to this princess who really seemed to come straight out of a Disney cartoon.

After it was all over, Ammon came running out to find me, asking for my camera. Apparently the princess was going to take pictures with the children. He was so excited that after I sent him back with my camera, I decided to follow him and make sure everything went well with getting the picture taken. Much to my dismay, he wasn't there! Katy and I began a fruitless search of the entire building. I even went out to the parking lot and glanced over at the park next to the library. Ammon was no where to be found! Now, Ammon gets "lost" all the time. He is really confident and wanders off, and I always find him - eventually. But we had 4 other kids searching through the building and we were constantly aware of where each of them were. It seemed impossible that Ammon could be missing in such a small building and that we wouldn't have found him by then. This is the first time in my life where I genuinely started to believe that someone had abducted him. Nothing else made sense to me - he had been so excited to get his picture taken I couldn't imagine him not returning to get it done. We were just about to call the police when I decided to check over at the park one last time. And, much more true to character, we learned that Ammon had just run off and was keeping himself entertained. No kidnappers involved! In all of his excitement he had run past the hallway leading back to the room where the princess was, so he just continued out the door. He was quickly distracted by the playground and was having a grand 'ol time. So, we scolded him for a moment, then ran back to get the picture!

After pictures, we stayed for the craft project that was going on that day. I was impressed that even Peter got into the cutting paper and they all had a good time.

1 comment:

TiffanyAugust 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Scary! You do so many fun things with your kids. They are lucky to have you.
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