....Pay it forward :)
The girls and i went to walk the greenline this morning. As we were walking i notice two little kids playing, there were other people around so i assumed they were with someone. I got closer and realized they were alone! They were wearing their pajamas, didn't have shoes on and the older one had fallen and skinned her knee. I stopped and talked to them and ask them where their mom and house were, but i don't think they spoke english, they also seemed very young, so maybe they just didn't understand me.
There are houses all along the greenline so i assumed they just came from one of them and the parents didn't notice that they snuck out the back, so I stayed awhile thinking one of the bike cops would come or their mom would, but no one ever did.
Finally, another man and lady stopped and I told them what was going on. Since it had been 15 minutes or so with no sign of a parent, we decided to call the greenline cop number, no one ever answered so we called 911. We stayed and played with them and tried to talk to them..in Spanish.. all i keep saying was donde su casa, donde madre.. haha i don't even think that is right, no wonder she wasn't responding!
We finally noticed these gold necklaces behind their shirts that had their names and birthdate on them. The boy was 20 months!! They girl just turned 3!
Finally the cops showed and then a lady rode by an heard us "attempting Spanish" haha and she spoke fluent spanish, thank goodness. The little girl was scared at this point with several people there now so she still wouldn't respond to the lady. By now it had been 30-45 minutes with no parents showing up!
Finally the girl started to respond to the lady and pointed that her house was down the way. So the cops took the kiddos down the greenline. I wanted to follow but they said they were good and it was time to get my bunch home for lunch. I am very thankful that the girls and maddie literally sat there and didn't make a sound. I guess they knew something was wrong. I kept checking back and they were still walking the other was so who knows if the little girl knew what she was pointing at :(
So, heres praying they found their home and parents..
because there's
"no place like home"
More on our trip to OZ for Halloween later :)
So proud of you! What a selfless and awesome thing to do. I'm sure you had other things you could have been getting done at home, but your mommy instincts told you staying was the right thing to do :) Hopefully she really did know which house was hers, poor things!
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