Fearless Aapo

Aapo's going to give me a heart-attack. I swear. That kid is far too fearless for his own good! And I mean that all with love. :)

With all the kids hanging around after the parade (see below), it was obviously a little hard to keep track of who was who, where was where, or what was what! We all were suppose to be in the backyard. Suppose, being the key word here.

Well, I looked around for the hundredth time and realized that my two oldest were missing. No big deal, I just figured they were in the front yard with the other missing kids. As I rounded the corner of the house, my heart shot straight for my throat!

There were some of the kids. On.the.other.side.of.the.road. And our road is really busy on a big weekend like this! Not normally. But when we're having a festival, it is. At this point, I only saw Ellie and Lela*, but at about four and three yrs. old respectively, they were far too young to be on the other side of the road. As I went rushing for the road, shouting STOP at the top of my voice, I spotted Aapo standing next to them. And I could see his wheels turning as he was watching the cars go by.

STOOOOOOOOOPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! I screamed but sure enough, he made a run for it! I never ran so fast in my entire life as I tore in front of those cars, which THANK HEAVEN had seen the kids and were slowing down!!

Everyone was safe and sound in the end but my heart is still thumping!

My worst fear!

The thing is, when I rounded that corner, Nikayda was about to join the others. She had stopped when she heard me.

I'm still shook up!

*Ellie is Joe & Christi's and Lela is Al & Maggie's