Lost Something? Call the Movie Guy.

On Tuesday I took the kids to see Madagascar 2 (by myself, pretty proud of that!) they were actually really good. Lincoln did wander the theater for a bit toward the end, but it was pretty empty, and he wasn't going anywhere near other people, so I let him. Anyhow, we were getting ready to leave, and I notice he is missing a shoe. I frantically searched all over by where we were sitting, and it wasn't there. I started going row by row where he had been walking (while trying to keep track of both kids who wanted to leave because the movie was over) and I cant' find it. I was still searching for it, when "the movie guy" came in to clean the theater. I explained the situation to him, getting a bit worried that maybe Lincoln had lost it in the lobby or outside, and it was really gone, but he grabbed a flashlight and found it in like a minute.

Flash forward to today. I took the kids to Panda Express for dinner. Lincoln insisted on bringing in a firetruck slightly larger than a matchbox car. He sat at the table and played with it most of the time we were there, but he did play on the bench next to us for a few minutes as well. Again, as we were leaving, I noticed that he didn't have his truck. Actually, I didn't notice. As I was trying to wrestle him into his carseat he was yelling "Truck, truck!" So I went back in to search for it. It wasn't anywhere that I could find, but I noticed a small gap at the edge of the bench that leads to a black hole under the bench. So I went back to the car and told the kids that it was gone forever, because I thought that Lincoln had dropped it into the bench. Savannah thought for a moment and said, "I know, just call the movie guy. He could use his flashlight to find it!"