Lost at the Museum

On St Patrick's Day, we went to the Discovery Gateway Museum because it was FREE! I found out last minute, so I just went with myself and my 3 children! Before we entered the premises I gave the kids 3 rules.

• 1) Make sure you can see mom at all times.
• 2) Have Fun
• 3) No Crying.

All was well until I got a phone call and I became distracted. After the phone call I looked around to make a mental check list of the location of my children.

• Bumble - check
• Kathryn - check ("oh, cute...she's pretending to grocery shop")
• Carter - where's Carter? Looking around, I saw him heading off to a different part of the museum. I tried to call for him but to no avail. So, I started the process of getting Kathryn to follow me and putting Kimball back into the stroller. It was just a matter of a few minutes but as I approached the area I heard over the intercom.

"Attention, Discovery Gateway patrons. Could Mary Boswell-Coombs come to the Information booth.? Carter is waiting for you. Again, could Mary Boswell-Coombs come to the Information booth?" (I just had to smile. My mother has been trying to get Carter to go by "Carter Boswell hyphen Coombs." I guess it's working.)

I rescued a distraught Carter from the information booth and hopefully he learned a lesson to stay close to Mom in such a public, crowded place. I wasn't too worried, because I had seen where he had gone, but I am relieved he knew to seek help. All's well that ends well.