Gone Missing..

Hubby and me left on Friday morning. The 3 monkies were at Granny's.  As usual, i didn't feel good leaving them with granny even though she's my own mum, afterall, they barely looked after the kids, so i just didn't feel comfy. 

  

But since daddy has already approached granny and "i dunno what he did" to convince her to look after the 3 monkies over the weekend, so i just went along with the plans. 

  

It was only Friday morning that we flew out, and we were back on the 1st flight home this morning as something unexpected happened.. :(

  

Granny called at 7.43am this morning, i could remember the time so well cos i was staring the clock at the bedside cos it was supposed to be a holiday, yet, some irritating people had to call and disturb us so early in the morning!  From the caller ID, it was granny's home number.. I thought it could be the 2 younger ones missing us since they wanted to go back home so badly on Thursday and Friday night, giving granny all sorts of excuses.. 

  

I pick the call, only to hear a panic granny on the phone telling me that Nick and Grace are MISSING! My heart missed more than a beat! The first question i ask was "DID YOU LOCK THE WINDOW GRILLS??"  Granny said yes.. so i went on asking then what she meant by the kids are missing?  She says they are not at home, and they have likely left the house in the morning before anyone at her place woke up!  I went blank.. LEFT THE HOUSE meaning what? Is it for real?????  Granny told me that my sisters and dad are going around the in the estate looking for the 2 of them while she is waiting at home for them..  And they have already called the police to help search for the both of them!

  

SHIT!!! The image for that missing 6yo boy who drowned in the drain near home surfaced, but since there wasn't any huge drains near home, i was more worried they might fall off the building or get knocked down which attempting to cross the road!!.. 

  

I called the hotel operator and told them to book hubby and me out on next flight home, never mind if we had to top up for whatever reasons!.. Hubby and me next threw everything back into the luggage, rushed to the airport hoping to catch the a flight home..

  

On our way to the airport in the cab, my phone rang.. I was scared, scare that it could be bad news... I looked at the Called ID, and realized it's my neighbour's..  Picked the call... 

  

She informed that she saw my kids sitting at the stairs outside my door, so she took them, gave them some food cos they were still in pajamas and she called me.  She also knew i wasn't in town as we usually have the habit of informing each other before we go away, so she called to ask for my mum's number.

  

At that moment, i just couldn't tell anyone how thankful i was.. I just cried and cried and told her i will call my mum to pick the kids from her place... I just couldn't recite the number to her cos i was sobbing away.. 

  

We got home around 2+pm, cos there wasn't seats on the direct flights, so we took the flight via KL to return home.. We saw the 3 monkies and granny + grandpa at the airport waiting for us.. 

  

Thank god there are unharmed.. 

  

So we sat down to have a late lunch and tried to ask Nick what actually happened.. 

  

His story..

He woke up earlier than granny and meimei.. He missed mummy and daddy a lot, so he woke meimei up, asking her if she wanted to go home to mummy and daddy's house.  And  since mama (granny)  the night before said he cannot go home cos we (daddy and mummy) went out, so he thought we would have returned at wee hours.  So he quietly took his meimei, walked down from the 10 floors (as he wasn't tall enough to press most the lift buttons yet) to the ground floor and then walked to our staircase landing, and walked up 4 floors.. He knocked on the door and no one opened, so they sat there and waited.. And, Grace actually suggested to see if daddy's car is in the carpark, so they walked down 4 floors again, and they saw daddy's car parked there, and concluded that we are at home.. So they walked up to the 4th floor again, knocked again, and then decided to sit there till the neighbour found them..

  

When asked about the time they went downstairs, did they try to cross the road to daddy's car, Nick told us meimei went on the road, but he told her to come back cos wait the car bang her backside, and she obeyed.. So i suppose we had to thank god that at that time, there wasn't anyone who drove past in that carpark at that time cos i don't think Nick would know what to do if there was..

  

And we asked why he didn't "enlist" Sam in his big run away plan, he say cos Sam loves to stay at granny's place, so Sam will not run away.. 

  

Oh boy! A 4yo and a 2yo, can actually plan an "escape".. I am more than thankful we found them unharmed.. Phew!! No more trips without the 2 younger monkies for now!..