Locked in...

So this morning I was in Shalise's room changing Marcus's diaper with Carson running all over the place, a pretty normal morning. Then Carson shuts the door and starts whining that he wants to come in, so I tell him, well open the door and come in. As the whining continues I start to realize that he can't come in because he has locked the door, from the outside. You may be asking why the door locks from the outside, well I am asking myself the same question at that very moment! Fabulous... I try to tell Carson how to unlock it and after several minutes with no success, I figure it's time for a new plan. I thought about climbing out the window to go around, but I could just picture Marcus tumbling out after me, so I decide I'll just have Carson get my phone, then I can call my neighbor to come open the door. Easy plan...

So I tell him to go to the kitchen counter and get mommy's phone. I hear his little feet run across the house and can hear him in the kitchen. Then I hear him say, "mommy, I want to get down". He's really good at climbing up on things, but gets nervous getting down by himself, so I can picture him sitting on the counter waiting for me to get him down. Which of course I can't because I am locked in the bedroom! So he whines and keeps asking me for help and I keep trying to talk him into climbing down on his own. This goes on for about 10 or 15 minutes, it seems like forever... Then I finally hear him running back to the room and ask him to slide the phone under the door for me, which he does. Then just as I am calling a neighbor to come rescue me, he finally gets the lock undone and opens the door with a big "hi mommy!". So that was our adventure this morning. After it was all said and done I really had to give the kid props. He did exactly what I asked him to do, even though it took a LONG time, and he must've conquered his fear of climbing down because he did manage to get off the counter on his own. All in a days work...