Brooklyn's Adventure

So it all happened last Friday. I was at work on the Supervisor line, so not at my normal desk, where Cody can reach me. Thomas a co-worker of mine kept hearing my phone ringing over and over again. He called the number back to find out it was my husband. Thomas came and told me that I needed to call my husband right away. I called Cody and got this story.

Cody sets an alarm to wake up in the morning, when Tabatha gets up for school. His alarm had not gone off and Tabatha did not wake him up. Tabatha, Brooklyn and Bailey all share a bedroom, so when Tabatha gets up for school it is inevitable that she does not wake the girls up. Tabatha also has a chore to feed the dog in the morning and she gets the girls pop-tarts. At 8:30ish she is off to school, which is on street away from our house. At 9:05, on Cody’s alarm clock, which is fast, Bailey came up and woke up Cody and told him she couldn’t find Brooklyn. Cody got up, came downstairs to the front door wide open, the dogs were gone and Brooklyn was gone. He ran around our little townhome community to see if he could find her there. She was no where, but some guy seemed to mention that he had seen our dogs by our pool. Cody didn’t care about the dogs at that moment of course. He came back home and dogs came wandering in behind him. He put Bailey in the Tahoe and called 911. The police asked him some questions and they already had Brooklyn in their custody.

I am glad she hadn’t been hurt and she was found. Brooklyn is very independent and she is a DIVA. If she wants something she will find a way. She is also very friendly and will talk to anyone. Tabatha is supposed to lock the door in the morning when she leaves for school. This day she didn’t do that. She also is supposed to wake Cody up, if he is not already awake. Tabatha and I had a talk that day. I told her the story and then asked her what she could do, so that wouldn’t happen again. She gave me all the right answers, good girl.

The police said they had to report it to CPS because of her age. The Officer told Cody that she didn’t think anything would come out of it. Well the CPS Worker told me this was a waste of time, but it’s not his decision to open a case or not. Legally they have to meet with the parents and the child and try to have a conversation with the child. Brooklyn is three, you can only imagine how that conversation went. They even used a tape recorder on her and they had to ask her if she wanted her Mom to stay. I am glad she said yes, since she probably didn’t even understand what that meant. Hopefully nothing like this happens again.