How could I?

Getting Ready for Church (She actually is excited! She LOVES church)

So I have only heard a few stories , but until this week I never fell into the following category. Let me start by saying that Thursday night is the busiest night for our family. The kids have activity after activity, that overlap each other. Also, Ethan's music class requires that a parent attends every other week. This Thursday was the "parent" week. So now that I have that set up, imagine Ben getting an emergency call for work, right before it all started. We thought it would be quick and he would be back in time to pick up the kids from piano. However, Boston was too sick for piano, still, and so I had to take Aubrie and wait for her lesson to be over, leaving me no time to come home and get dinner started. On my way home, I get a call from Ben telling me that the job is taking longer than he thought. So I had to find Aubrie a ride to dance while I took Ethan to music. Ben still wasn't done, after music, and so I swung by the house and grabbed Sophia, to give my Mom a break, and went to pick up Aubrie.

Aubrie still had about 15 minutes left, by the time I got there, so I went in and let Sophia play in the toy area, while I watched Aubrie dance. Sophia was playing so quietly, I hardly noticed she was there. While at the studio, Devney (the owner), needed me to help Aubrie try on some jumpsuits, for sizing. After we were done trying them on, Aubrie and I left, to go meet Ben at Subway. Noticing anything wrong yet? Subway is about 10 minutes away. As I was pulling in to the parking lot, I was thinking that I would let Aubrie stay in the car with SOPHIA....ahhhhh....Sophia wasn't in the car. I forgot her! I couldn't believe it. How could I? I was on the phone with Ben when I realized it, and I kept saying over and over, "I forgot Sophia, I forgot Sophia." I immediately turned around and headed back to the studio. Aubrie didn't believe me at first, because I have played that trick on the kids a lot, when my Mom has her at home, and they are wondering where she is. I was breaking all kinds of speed limits to get to her. I kept saying, "I can't believe I forgot her. I'm such a bad Mom". Aubrie was so cute, telling me to calm down, and that I was a good Mom. Somehow Ben beat me there (well he not only speed, but went over some medians.) Sophia was clueless that we were even gone. Luckily the people at the studio know who she is and who she belongs to. I was just afraid she could have gone out the front door without anyone noticing. And I couldn't get over that i had forgotten her. I put the experience on facebook the next day, and hearing everyone else's "forgetting the child" stories made me feel much better. This is a defintely a story Sophia will be telling, or using against me, when she gets older!

Result of Sophia getting into the pool closet!!