I had the scariest thing happen to me tonight with my July toddler for the first time. We went to our local hockey game with our whole family. Literally 6 other people besides me and my sons dad/my husband. July babe was excited which I loved. However he took it upon himself to decide we were taking too long to scan everyone’s tickets at the entrance and he walked through the crowd, up to where the doorways to seating rows were so he could see the ice rink. By himself. Not one of us saw him walk away.

Now I should mention I’m also 9 weeks pregnant. I panicked, I yelled for him but it was loud. I yelled at my family, how could none of us see him go? I made everyone split up and start looking. My SIL was the one who found him and brought him back to me where I was almost paralyzed just looking around me in disbelief. I dropped to the ground and started sobbing into his coat.

This all happened in the span of 1 single minute. He’s always been the type to be attached to my hip in public and I never thought it would happen to me. I’m still not okay 4 hours later. I’m just thanking my lucky stars that he was found so fast. And despite him throwing a fit over me holding him every second we were walking around afterwards, I’ll never forget this moment. Heavily considering one of the leashes or something if he’s going to start getting curious like that 😭 I’ll also be holding him a little tighter during bedtime snuggles.