Porter's Adventures

The other night I came home after work with dinner. Rowdy told me he would go get Porter because he was up at the neighbors house playing. Rowdy came back with no Porter. He took the car and went around looking for him. Everywhere he went he heard the same thing, "Porter was here a little while ago but then he left." No one knew where he went. Rowdy searched for 30-45 minutes. We were both scared and upset. We don't know all of our neighbors that well yet and of course only bad things run through your mind. Of course with Rowdy working at the jail, he sees pedafiles all the time so he was thinking the worst too. Rowdy thought he would go up by the church where there is a dead end road and the edge of the cliff. People have thrown rocks off and fallen down the cliff and have died. So as he went to the edge, he was nervous of what he may see. As he turned around to get back in the van, he saw Porter hopping along in the parking lot.

Rowdy drove up and got him and they came home. When he got home, of course I asked him very sternly where he had been. He said, "but mom I was thirsty so I went to the church and their was a party and they had cake and ham and people where doing this" (this is when he pretended to play the violin). Wait, what? First of all, when you leave your friends you come home. Secondly, you need a drink don't go to the church. Third, what party? cake? ham? What are you talking about?

As we were eating dinner we tried to get the whole story from him. Apparently he was thirsty so he went into the church. There were lots of people there eating cake and ham (2 of Porter's favs). So he had some. I asked him if anyone talked to him. He said yes. I asked what they said and he said,"They asked if I was alone and I told them yes." (Big sigh, apparently the whole talk about stranger danger doesn't matter if you are in the church.) He said he got himself some food, sat at the table all by himself and ate. In my mind I am imagining some program going on at the church, a table of food set up in the back and a little boy helping himself. Oh heaven help me. Rowdy and I couldn't stop laughing. We were trying to tell him what he did was wrong, but also trying to hide our smiles. Not easily done.

Rowdy thought he would drive up to the church and see exactly what was going on. As he was headed up, my visiting teacher called and said that if Porter wasn't hungry at dinner that is because he was just at the church and ate. So she saw the whole thing. She said he walked in, looked around, saw the food, nicely got his plate. He scooped up some ham, potatoes and salad and went and sat at a table. She saw him talking to a couple of ladies. The middle school orchestra was playing at the time. He ate all his dinner. He went back for cake and finished that. He threw his plate away and left. ( I forgot to mention that it was the OTHER wards Relief Society party). My VT was just there with her friend. She thought maybe Porter was there with his grandma or something. She didn't know what to think but said he was very quiet and well mannered. That I am thankful for. She was laughing the whole time she was telling us.

Anyway, that is our story. He is such a funny little guy but he keeps us on our toes. We are just glad he was ok.