Fit_mommy
Cathlete
Yesterday late afternoon/early evening I was doing chores around the house. DH wasn't home b/c he was working overtime so it was just me, Joey and the dog. I always put a gate up in front of the stairs going up to the second floor so that my son doesn't try to climb them alone. I always keep all of the doors in my house shut unless I am in that particular room so that he doesn't wander into a room where I can not see him. He has free-range of the living room, kitchen and hallway only.
With that being said...I had emptied the kitchen garbage can and needed to take it outside. I walked out the back door which is in the kitchen, made sure the screen door was shut so that Joey couldn't push against it and fall out of it. The distance to the garbage can from the door is not far. A few steps, down the porch stairs, a few more steps and there you are. It takes SECONDS to do this. Well, apparently that is all of the time a child needs!
When I got back to my door it was locked! My almost 2 year old had managed to lock me out of the house! I almost died!!!! I was telling him to unlock it and I knew he understood me and he was trying to do it but couldn't figure it out! I waited a few minutes and when he was having no luck I ran next door to my neighbors to ask for something to pick a lock. While they were looking for a bobby pin or something I ran back to my house to check on Joey. The house is child-proofed but nothing is FULL-PROOF so I wanted to make sure he wasn't doing anything he shouldn't be. I checked the door when I got back just in case and...thank goodness, he had figured out how to unlock it!!!!
OMG! I was mortified that this had actually happened to me! I would have had to have my husband come home from work (30 mins away!) or worse, I would have had to call the cops who could have arrested me for negligence!!!! (not that I think I was being negligent...I was taking the garbage out which is all of 10 foot away!)
I told DH and he was laughing....I can laugh about it too but man was it scarey at the time! Ya just don't know what a kid is gonna do!
With that being said...I had emptied the kitchen garbage can and needed to take it outside. I walked out the back door which is in the kitchen, made sure the screen door was shut so that Joey couldn't push against it and fall out of it. The distance to the garbage can from the door is not far. A few steps, down the porch stairs, a few more steps and there you are. It takes SECONDS to do this. Well, apparently that is all of the time a child needs!
When I got back to my door it was locked! My almost 2 year old had managed to lock me out of the house! I almost died!!!! I was telling him to unlock it and I knew he understood me and he was trying to do it but couldn't figure it out! I waited a few minutes and when he was having no luck I ran next door to my neighbors to ask for something to pick a lock. While they were looking for a bobby pin or something I ran back to my house to check on Joey. The house is child-proofed but nothing is FULL-PROOF so I wanted to make sure he wasn't doing anything he shouldn't be. I checked the door when I got back just in case and...thank goodness, he had figured out how to unlock it!!!!
OMG! I was mortified that this had actually happened to me! I would have had to have my husband come home from work (30 mins away!) or worse, I would have had to call the cops who could have arrested me for negligence!!!! (not that I think I was being negligent...I was taking the garbage out which is all of 10 foot away!)
I told DH and he was laughing....I can laugh about it too but man was it scarey at the time! Ya just don't know what a kid is gonna do!
