Short story: I lost Claire at the mall. The longer story is that Claire is not really a runner and does a good job staying close to me ... except when she's with Kaylie. With Kaylie, she becomes this shrieking mass of excited fun.
What happened was we walked in the Gap at Stonebriar Mall which is more of a mega-Gap of 4 stores combined: Gap, Gap Body, Gap Kids, and Baby Gap. Claire and Kaylie ran to the back of the store, and I figured she'd just be trapped there and I would make my way to her.
Instead, I discovered that the Gaps were all connected by dressing rooms. One loooooong hallway that connected all of the Gaps together meaning Claire ran into the dressing room area and out .. well, one of the other three. Yikes.
Corrie and I called for Claire (trying not to freak out), and I let a store employee know that my daughter had run away. This is where I became incredibly impressed by the Gap staff. She immediately got on her headset and said something about "missing child". From the place I was at, I saw employees from each of the Gap stores immediately head to the front entrances of each store to make sure nobody left any of the establishments until we got it resolved.
While this was happening, Corrie found Claire who was hiding near the back of one of the stores (and not the one that we started in). She didn't respond to our calls because she had been pooping in her diaper. In fact, she had been looking for a bathroom because of the potty-training we'd been attempting.
I have to say ... whew! What a scary moment. Huge kudos to everyone at Gap for acting so quickly and proactively!
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