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
4 comments:
That's so funny! I love that you touched fingers under the door. So funny!
Oh dear. Sounds like a traumatic day! Glad we're not the only ones losing sleep. Let's throw Porter and Nathan in a room together. Maybe they'll keep each other happy and crash when they're tired enough.
Ha! This is so cute and funny! Porter is so cute.
haha!! I got to say that HAS happened to us before!!! I remember touching fingers under the door while Jarom was just sobbing and Jonny and his Dad were trying to open the door (we were on vacation). Another time Jarom had the keys in the car and Jonny shut the the door before I could get in and Jarom hit the "lock" button. We had to wait for Jonny's sister to drive to our house to get our spare key and bring it to us- that was a miserable experience!! Good thing your little guy was ok. Hey- let's try and get together while we are in Cali!
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