A couple old nemesiseseseses

So, who remembers my garden? (If you don't, go refresh yourself, because it'll be update time, soon!) It's been in this state for over a year now. Plus some new weeds. At some point, Michael dug up some of the roots from those horrible ugly plants that I battled with for hours.
So, yesterday I was weeding, and I see a few little green shoots. I dug around them a little and was horrified at what I found.
One of those awful plants was still alive. It took me nearly an hour, but I dug and dug and pulled and pulled and broke lots of roots apart and finally pulled out the huge root system. The nightmare in my garden is finally over. AND it's nearly weed-free and actually has a few flowers. That we haven't killed yet.
I also wrote around that same time about Aaric taking his bike around the neighborhood (back in the Legal Notice Lady days. he's not supposed to leave the yard without me, unless I send him somewhere, which I rarely do.
While weeding yesterday, the kids were playing with Aaric's scooter on the sidewalk. Aaric came to tell me that Mikayla had gone to the playground. I asked him to go get her. It's right around the corner, no biggie. She came back less than a minute later. Several minutes later, I was done weeding and he wasn't back yet. I walked to where I could see the playground - no Aaric. In no mood to wander the neighborhood on foot, I grabbed the keys and let Michael know what was up and circled the block in the van. No Aaric. Now, there was that ONE time when he rode his bike about a 1/3 mile away, into the next neighborhood over which was under construction at the time. But that's the only time he's gone that far. So we were concerned. We put the younger two into the van and Michael got in his car and we split up to search. We both circled our immediate area again, and then he went one way and I went the other. He wasn't at the school, and I called Michael and he wasn't at the community center (1/3 mile away) either. A couple minutes later, I was calling to say that if we didn't find him in a minute, we needed to call the police. As I was saying, "if we don't find him..." Michael interupted to say, "I see him."
This time, he was about 2/3 mile away. It had been probably about 30 minutes from when he left our front door until we found him. He says that he was looking for Mikayla - he didn't see her coming back home, they were on opposide sides of the street.
I'm suprised I'm not gray yet.