Thursday, February 11, 2010

"Oh Where,Oh where can he be?"

Ok, so last night was a pretty boring night at the Stiltz home...until about 8:00pm that is.
Danny was at work, Linda was reading in her room and Garrett and I were snuggled up in my bed playing cars and reading books. He had already had his bath, pj's were on & we were winding down and both getting sleepy. I had locked my bedroom door earlier in the evening to keep him confined to my room as my back was hurting and I didn't want to chase him all around the house.
As usual when he gets really sleepy and realizes it, he decides to try and get up and play and he slides off of the bed on Danny's side. Rather than get him and put him back in bed immediately, I decided to take advantage of the fact that he was up to run to the restroom (which is located in my room). I was gone maybe 2 minutes MAX. When I got back to the room, I see no Garrett. Sometimes he finds it fun to hide in a little cubby under the computer desk and behind the office chair in our room. Assuming this was the case, I say "where is Garrett?" and wait for a little giggle...Nothing. I pull the chair out to get him back in bed and find...nothing.
Now I am confused-did he come in the bathroom and I didn't see him? Is he in the master closet playing? so I start searching-not really worried because I know he's in that room. Checked the bathroom, shower, and closet...nothing...Looked behind the recliner in my room...nothing.Looked under my side of the bed...nothing (well except some mess that I now know I need to get under there and clean up), then I go over to Dannys side and look under the bed...nothing except dannys gun case which is the length of the bed.
Now I am perplexed...there are no other places to look and I start to feel a little anxious. I check the door to my room, still locked, I rip all the blankets from the bed in case he was under them...nothing. Now I decide to check with Linda to make sure he didn't somehow get out of the room and go see her...Nope and now we are both puzzled, I recheck every place I just looked. I am starting to worry a little. Where could he possibly be? Now we start hollering his name "Garrett, come see Mommy right now", Garrett, wanna cookie? Garrett where are you?, Garrett come see Gran" no answer but I do hear a little noise that sounds like it's from under the bed.
Gran gets down on Dannys side of the bed with a flashlight and pulls out Dannys big long gun case and there is Garrett. "He's not moving" she says and I ask her to get up so I can get to him, I get the flashlight and grab his little arm and leg which I can hardly reach and pull him a little bit and can see now that he is absolutely fast asleep. Thank you Lord! I pull him out from under the bed and I got the top half of his body out and he woke up kind of groggy and then mad. Apparently he was quite tired and didn't appreciate the fact that he was now being awakened! or the fact that he had just about given mommy and then gran a heart attack.
He had to crawl under the bed, over and behind the gun case and then fall asleep all in the time it took me to use the restroom. Unbelievable! You can bet we will be making sure that he is unable to crawl under the bed again. It took half an hour to get him back to sleep. I called Danny to tell him of the evenings events and he laughs and says "Well,Margaret, apparently he was tired." I am so lucky to have such an understanding husband. LOL.

2 comments:

  1. That is a good story!!!

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  2. love you, danny and garrett, will get out to see you again, hoopefuly soon. love aunt ruth

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