Thursday, February 26, 2009

PANIC!!!

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, I suppose. On Wednesday morning, Brady and I were getting ready to go to Ikea and I decided to go put my bag and stuff in the car so that I wouldn't be juggling so many things trying to get Brady into the car. I went through the door that leads from the kitchen to the laundry room(and left it open) and then out the door that leads from the laundry room to the garage. This particular door is usually left unlocked BUT I decided to lock it earlier in the week since Alan is in Germany (apparently I forgot this!!!!). So I take my stuff to the car, feeling VERY organized and on top of things and smart that I had thought of this and then I went back to the door to go back inside and IT WOULDN'T OPEN!!!! It was LOCKED!!! And Brady was inside!!!! And I was in the garage!!!!! PANIC, sheer PANIC went through me for about 10 seconds before I started running things through my head...."who do I call, my brother or Vivianne"(the 2 people who have keys)...."crap, I don't have my cell phone"...."I can go to the neighbors"...."I know Alan said there was a key in the fridge out here at one point, but I don't think it's there now"...."will Alan even answer his phone if I call him"...."what's he going to do for me anyway"....."I'm an idiot". Then I realized that Brady was at the door so I say, as calmly as possible, "Brady, can you unlock the door for mommy?" "Can you turn the knob"? Then I hear noise like he's just turning the knob back and forth, but I went ahead and tried to open the door and GUESS WHAT??? He had managed to unlock the door!!!!!!!!!! SHEWWWWWWWWWW!!!! I immediately drop to my knees and thank him and tell him what a good boy he is, all the while tears are coming down my face and he's looking at me like I'm crazy!!!!!!

Needless to say I was/am VERY impressed by my little pumpkin!!! 

Now, here's the funny part....in hindsight of course.....I am pretty sure that my keys were in my bag which was in the car the whole time!!!!! But I'm not 100% sure. I mean I don't think I'd be that flighty and not think of that, but maybe the panic just made me forget everything, I really don't know. Either way, Brady did a GREAT job and I'm super proud of him!!!!

Guess what we're doing this weekend?? Yep, we're having another key made and we're finding some place to keep it in the garage in case this ever happens again!!!

Here's a cute picture of Brady with his new haircut!!! 

6 comments:

Stefanie said...

What a smart kiddo!!! I am so impressed that he could follow your directions. And what a relief for you!

LOVE the new haircut! He looks like such a big kid!

KB said...

Wow. I was nervous just reading about your note.

Andy locked me out of the house once. And that weekend, I went and bought one of those realtor type combination hide-a-keys for $30 that I installed on the wall. Money well spent.

Katie said...

:-) Silly Brady! Thank goodness he opened it! Leo did that to me in the car when he first came home too! Happy birthday too, big boy! He's so handsome!

Karin and Rob said...

Wow, that's impressive that Brady was able to unlock the door! I would have been completely freaking out too.

Awesome haircut too!

Shana said...

Close call! What a smarty pants Brady is, you are right, he is brilliant!! Way to go Brady!

We have a key hidden for such instances. This happened to me on more than one occasion, before kids though. It is not fun to go to your neighbors house braless, shoeless, and in mismatched PJ's and ask for their phone to call your husband. I am constantly learning lessons:)

Shana said...

Close call! What a smarty pants Brady is, you are right, he is brilliant!! Way to go Brady!

We have a key hidden for such instances. This happened to me on more than one occasion, before kids though. It is not fun to go to your neighbors house braless, shoeless, and in mismatched PJ's and ask for their phone to call your husband. I am constantly learning lessons:)