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A Really Scary 15 Minutes

I had one of the scariest phone calls of my lifetime yesterday. The elementary school called me at work,

Sarah (the after school program employee) Did you pick Paul up from school today?

Me: No Why?

Sarah : He did not come into the aftercare program. Do you think your husband picked him up?

Me : I don't think so, he would have let you know. I will call and ask him. At this time my second office line is ringing and it is my boss, she wants me to come to her office. I ask if it is really important, and proceed to tell her what is going on. By this time my heart is about to beat out of my chest. I hung up and dialed Tim's number. I dialed it wrong three times before I finally got through.

Me: Did you pick Paul up from school today?

Tim: NO I am in Tucson. Why?

Me: He did not show up at the after care program. I will call you back, I am going to call and see if they found him.

Me: I call the school and there is no answer in the office, it goes to voice mail. I try the teachers private line. No answer. I try the office again it goes to voice mail again. I call the aftercare cell phone. Sarah answers: Did you find him?

Sarah: No we are searching the bathrooms and the playground. the teacher is here I want you to talk to her.

Mrs. Shawver: would he have gotten on the bus?

Me I don't think so, he would be to scared.

Mrs Shawver: I am going to look up his friends phone numbers and start calling them.

Me: I will call one of the neighbors to see if he is outside my house.

Me: I call Steve who lives across the street. As claim as I can say it, I ask Steve: Steve did you bring Paul home with you?

Steve: uh No!

Me: He is missing, he did not go to the aftercare program and they can't find him.

Steve: What can I do?

Me: Would you please go over to the new neighbors and see if he went home with their little boy. Steve was walking out of the front door as we were on the phone.

Steve: He is with Joey.

Me: what?

Steve: He is out front, walking into Joey's house right now.

Me: Go tell him to call me right now. No wait, don't do anything. I am on my way home right now. (Poor Steve I was probably yelling at him at this point). Don't do anything I am coming home.

I then go to my bosses office. Is there something you need immediately?

Boss: Did they find Paul?

Me: Yes and No he walked home with a neighbor but he is not back at the school.

Boss: You go take care of Paul and come see me tomorrow.

Me: Thank you.

My coworker: Let Paul tell you his side before you kill him.

Me: OK

At this point I gather my stuff and head home knowing I not come back today. I head out the door calling Tim to let him know that I know where Paul is and I am on my way to get him.

I Knock on the neighbors door and ring the door bell.

Joey and Paul answer the door.

Paul: Hi Mom! (Happy as could be) What are you doing here?

Me: The teachers and all the the workers at aftercare are looking for you. They are about to call the Police ( OK this should all be in CAPS ) I was not happy.

Paul: Says nothing just burst into tears and runs home.

Me: I look right at Joey. Don't ever do anything like this again. Paul is only six. I then head home. I make myself a cup of tea and then talk to Paul.

He had decided to walk home with Joey and play video games until I came home.

I Think it will be a longggggggggg time before he tries this again.

I did not beat him and he is still breathing.

The next morning he went to the school and apologized to each person involved. That was probably the worst punishment of all.

Walt Disney World January 2010

Day one Paul is up, dressed, and ready to go when it is still dark. We get to the hotel bus station by 740am.

We decided to go to Disney's Animal Kingdom. We went to many attractions, my favorite, The Festival of the Lion King, beautiful costumes, dancing and singing. the trapeze artists were great too. Paul and I went to see "It's Tough to be a bug show 3D show". Not his most favorite attraction. The bugs were flying right at him and it kind of freaked him out.

Going into "It's Tough to Be a Bug" he is all smiles as he put on the goofy glasses.

We ventured into Dinoland and Paul won lots of prizes at the carnival style games. He won a bear and then a seahorse, later we went back and he won a brightly colored bat . He then traded up with his wins for a large green snake, and traded the seahorse up for a Shark. Tim and Paul had made a deal that he could only bring one home on the plane, so we told him he might want to give the others away.

At the Mickey's Jamm'in Jungle Parade at the end of the day he gave the Bat to a boy about 4 years old. I think giving it away made him happier than the little boy. Then he gave the shark to the little boy's older sister. He came back and told Tim, "I just made two kids really happy."

The safari was our most memorable ride. We spent about an hour on it because one of the animals and her baby decided to rest in the middle of the road about three jeeps ahead of us. So while waiting we took a lot of pictures and visited with the others on the jeep ride. We were not allowed to get off, we just sat and watched the elephants.

Expedition Everest was a great roller coaster. This train zipped through the mountain and brought on a ton of screaming. Paul just held on tight to my arm.

Then we were off to the Kali River rapids. Picture a large inner tube with about 10 seats on it. Yes I took ponchos for all. We not only rode this ride once, we rode it three times in a row. After the first time Paul refused the poncho, preferring to get soaked and soaked is just what he got. Sorry, no pictures... I had wrapped up the camera in a Ziploc and did not get it out for a while.

Though Paul was a few inches too short for many of the attractions we had a wonderful day.

Around 5pm we headed to Downtown Disney to meet Aunt Ellen, John, Becky and her friend Liam for dinner, where else but the T-REX restaurant .

It was outside of this restaurant that we discovered Paul had been wearing his jeans backwards all day. Tomorrow we will not get dressed in the dark.

The Trex burger was as big as Liam's head. I am not saying you have a big noggin or anything Liam, but see for yourself.

Sorry the picture is a little blurry. I think I was laughing too hard to hold the camera still.

The Adventures of Crush Continue

Crush climbs on top of his new house,

not sure why maybe looking for breakfast

or just trying to get closer to the heat lamp. Look Mom I'm a big boy now!
OOoooPS

You know the flash on that camara can really scare a guy.

I was concerned when he fell off as he tried to go down backwards

but did not interfere, Iwaited about 3 minutes

and when I looked back he was already figuring it all out.

He was on the move again and in search of breakfast.Breakfast today consisted of a handful of Organic spring mix

and a special treat, a hand picked fresh geranium flower and leaf.

The Adventures of Crush Continue

A little walk in the sunshine.

Crush checks out and the new gravel
around the swing set.


Back to the grass it tastes much better.

We Learn about Love and Family From Great Examples

Here it is already December 8th, 2009.

The Walsh family is as busy as ever and Tim is working hard at getting our Christmas letter out to friends and family. I am posting a one of our Christmas pictures.
Merry Christmas

The adventures of Crush

We would like you to meet Crush.

Crush is the latest addition to the Walsh family.

Crush was a gift to Paul for his 6th birthday last month.

Weights in at a whopping 3 1/2 oz's.

He is about 2 1/2 inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail.