Here it goes---
Jordan is working and Laney and I are at home. Laney fell asleep in her bouncer and I was busy cleaning and getting ready to leave for a few errands and a meeting I had to get to. Well I ran upstairs to grab the toilet bowl cleaner and a few diapers to pack Laney's diaper bag and I heard the dogs barking outside.... the sound of their barking reminded me that I left the sliding glass door wide open. I thought to myself, oh no, I better go close that. That isn't safe to leave Laney downstairs alone with the door open like that. Someone could just walk right in and take her.
So I walk down the stairs quickly and from the stairs I see the bouncer seat, but I cannot see Laney. It then started to feel like slow motion (I am sick to my stomach as I type this, because I can still feel the emotions that I felt at that moment) and I thought ok maybe it is just a bad angle. I walked up to the bouncer and LANEY WAS GONE!!! I put both hands on my head and walked in a circle a few times in disbelief. I walked outside to look for anything and then I walked back inside at the bouncer just to check that I wasn't going crazy. I was hysterical and I instantly felt guilty for leaving that door open. Then I decided to call 911....
They answer the phone and I scream, "SOMEONE STOLE MY BABY!". The lady tried to keep me calm and started asking me all these questions. In the meantime I am running in the backyard and the front yard in my jammies (basically a long Tshirt)... I could care less who saw me or what they saw. I just wanted my baby. I even saw a blue car speed by, and I was worried they had her. While I was outside I saw that the gate had a lock on it, and I thought how would someone jump a fence with that lock and I even thought that the dogs never barked and that was SO WEIRD. Well I am talking to 911 for a few minutes and then I heard Laney cry.
I was in the front yard and I told the dispatcher that they had brought her back to me, I hear her crying. I was expecting to see Laney back in her bouncer, laying on the couch, laying on the grass... I was 100% sure someone had taken her and chickened out and returned her. Well I walked in the house to find her in her jumperoo... and then I instantly remember that she had woken up and I placed her in her jumperoo just before I headed upstairs. I picked her up and held her so tight!
The dispatcher made sure she understood what I was saying, and then she asked if Laney was ok, and I responded yes! Then she asked if I was going to be ok, and I responded yes -- however I had heart palpitations for a few hours and I was shaking for a long time.
I know this just seems like some crazy story and I look like a crazy lady, but it was SO REAL to me! I seriously thought Laney was kidnapped. I had no doubt in my mind that I left her in that bouncer seat, and that is why I didn't bother looking around the house for her.... that and babies don't move at all :) It was a horrible feeling that I wish I had never felt, but it made me so thankful and I instantly thanked God. Whew.... WHAT A DAY! Now I am anxious every time I am not on the same level of our house that she is, even when she is sleeping peacefully in her crib and I am downstairs typing this blog! Well I better go check on her!!
