Locked Door

Naptime and bedtime have been extremely off in our house in the last month and a half. Porter cannot go to sleep without someone with him in his room and at nighttime he wakes up at least once. Since he is now in a "big boy" bed, we find the little boy in our bed in the middle of the night and if we are not too exhausted, take him back to his room, only to do it all over again. As you can tell, no one in our house has had a full night's rest in over a month, even little Annie, who probably gets the most.

At naptime today little Porter would not stay in his bed and would not settle down. I would forgo the naps but I know that it is not time yet because he would fall asleep in the middle of the living room if he didn't, which he has.

Annie was crying in her swing while I was trying to get Porter down, so I told him that I would be back and that he needed to stay in his bed and that if he didn't I wouldn't come back in with him and that I would shut the door. Usually, if I needed to leave to check on Annie he would stay, but today he didn't. I found him in the living room with me.

I guided Porter back to his room and then when he was at his bed, I shut the door. I was only going to shut it so he knew I was serious and then I would open it after about 20 seconds (with yelling of course). Well ... when I went to open the door, it was locked. Now he cannot open the doors, but when he had tried to open it by climbing on his toy box, he had accidently locked it. I was able to calm him down but at my first attempt at talking him through unlocking it, I had to call his father.

Before I heard Job's voice on the phone I began to laugh. Between laughs I asked him how to unlock Porter's door, only to hear "you really can't". I then told him what had happened and that Porter was locked inside his room. He told me to try using an old credit card and if that did not work, to call him. I tried my Ralph's card, CVS card and Food for Less card, which did not work. I should have known because I had never needed to use the old credit card trick. I had to call him back. Good thing he was only two minutes away from home.

While waiting for Job, I tried to get Porter to unlock the door, which failed. We then laid on the floor and touched eachother's fingers until the hero came to rescue us. Good thing the credit card trick didn't work for him either because then I really would have looked stupid. Job was able to get the door open with a screwdriver. As a payment to him, he took one of my birthday candy bars, definately worth it.

Thanks Hero Daddy. We love you

Atlantis Garden Grove Park ... blast or bust?

About a month ago, my friend Anna and her boys Joshua and Nathan went with us to the Atlantis Garden Grove Park. it was filled with fun things for kids to play on. Porter would not go near this King Triton dude, or this ginormous whale slide,



Or this big ship,

Or this dragon slide,

or this octopus thing.


But he did manage to ride a seahorse,


Fly an airplane with his buddy Nathan,


Walk through a tunnel with Anna and the boys,



Feed a shark some leaves (only after Nathan started to first),


And ride a whale.



The dollar for entering was worth the ability for you to run free in a fenced in area. You seemed to enjoy it because all 3 of you boys fell asleep on our way home.

Do Dreams Come True?

Plays baseball by day ...


and dreams of it by night. (if you look close he is holding a baseball)


I want to be a ball player when i grow up!