My three year olds locked me out of the house!

[WNDMom]

I went to the van for a minute to grab my purse. When I got back, one of my three year old twins had locked the door. He thought it was funny for a minute, but then he couldn't open the door. After trying for almost 45 minutes at all three doors, I had to call a locksmith to get the door open. Sure enough, the front door lock had broken after he locked it.

I guess it's a good thing it took so long for me to get in. The boys were so sad by then, that I felt sorry for them.

I'm sure I will laugh about this in a week or so, but for now, I'm just sad.

 

[Tiggeroo]

as the mother of twin boys and a dd who is three years older I can relate. I think i spent the first three years perpetually exhausted and combining that with the twins personalities the kids constantly lost my keys.
My boys are 19 now so it get easier for awhile then they become teens and it gets harder.
If I got on the phone when they were pre-school it guaranteed trouble. Once I went into the bathroom after being on the phone. They had unrolled the tp all over the place, dumped a whole thing of powder and were diving into it.
Once I took them to friendlies and somehow lost my keys. I swore the bus boy had accidently thrown them out and made him search the can. I actually wanted to go back there. I knew they had been on the table and were no longer there. I had a spare set locked in the car. Called a lock smith, went home. Changing sons diaper, the keys were inside one of their little toddler hiking boots where he had put them. I never went back to friendlies.

 

[MamaLema]

Someday you'll look back at this and laugh.

Glad the kids are O.K.

 

[gypsydoodlebug]

Oh, no! That's awful! DD locked me out once, but I could get in through the garage. Laugh later about it! Make sure you keep the receipt and give it to DS on his wedding day!

 

[WNDMom]

Oh, no! That's awful! DD locked me out once, but I could get in through the garage. Laugh later about it! Make sure you keep the receipt and give it to DS on his wedding day!

That's a good idea! I'll never forget how sad he was while we waited for the locksmith. He kept holding his had up to the window for me to "touch". I couldn't be mad at him anymore after that.

 

[mickeyboat]

I am sorry you are feeling sad, but it is really funny, and hopefuly you can laugh about it soon.

Maybe you should think about hiding a key outsied, or leaving one with a neighbor or family member.

Last year we went to a concert and left the girls with a teenage babysitter. They decided to eat dinner on the proch, and when she went outside to serve the kids, she closed the locked door behind her. She was pretty upset, and went to the neighbor's house who eventually called the police. They did not want to come out, until the neighbor said that the stove might still be on from when she cooked dinner. They used a jamb extender tool to get the door open. She was mortified, but all was well, we laugh about it now.

Give those little ones big hugs!

Denae

 

[lindakmonty]

Glad everybody is ok I'm sure you'll laugh about it later. I'd hide a key in the garage somewhere

 

[WNDMom]

as the mother of twin boys and a dd who is three years older I can relate. I think i spent the first three years perpetually exhausted and combining that with the twins personalities the kids constantly lost my keys.
My boys are 19 now so it get easier for awhile then they become teens and it gets harder.
If I got on the phone when they were pre-school it guaranteed trouble. Once I went into the bathroom after being on the phone. They had unrolled the tp all over the place, dumped a whole thing of powder and were diving into it.
Once I took them to friendlies and somehow lost my keys. I swore the bus boy had accidently thrown them out and made him search the can. I actually wanted to go back there. I knew they had been on the table and were no longer there. I had a spare set locked in the car. Called a lock smith, went home. Changing sons diaper, the keys were inside one of their little toddler hiking boots where he had put them. I never went back to friendlies.

You know I thought they would be easy by now. While they're quite a bit easier than they were at two, they are still quite difficult. I've been cleaning up silver sharpie off of their dry erase boards for the last half hour.

 

[poohluvrs]

This is my greatest fear every morning I let the dogs out...I go armed w/ a spare set of keys & a cell phone!

I just couldnt stand the humility of knocking on the neighbors doorstep in my jammies & early morning hair mess

 

[KikiFan]

One night I stepped out to walk the dog and accidently locked myself out. No problem I thought! I'll just wake up my daughter (11) and she'll let me in. I beat on her bedroom window and screamed and yelled for an hour and she never woke up. The neighbors three houses down woke up and came to help and she still didn't wake up. I started beating on the wall right next to her bed, I beat so hard, I put my hand throw the stucco and she still didn't wake up. I was so pissed. I was so sure she couldn't possibly be asleep, I ran to her room screaming and turned on the light. She didn't have a clue what had happened.

I still can't get over how deep my daughter was sleeping.

 

[daisyduck123]

Happened to me once too.

DD5 & I were out on the back deck looking at something & DS2 locked the back patio door.
He thought it was funny & laughed....until he realized I couldn't get back in.
Then he started crying, "Mommy come in. Come in."

This deck is on the 2nd floor, so we couldn't just jump off the side.

I still can't remember how DD & I got back in.
DS must have figured out how to unlock the door.

 

[MushyMushy]

That's so cute! (I say that as a mother of a miserable teen)

My dog locked me out once. Then she made a mess while I was waiting for my dad to bring me a key. Stupid dog.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

OMG this is what i have in store for me! thanks for the heads up
I would be sad too, but it looks like it gets better from what the others are saying!

MY 2yr old and 1yr old stole my credit card off the entry way table and i yelled, screamed, blamed my husband for DAYS! finally i cancelled the card and ordered a new on EXPRESS and when it arrived and i cheered and showed the kids, i was so happy, DD ran into the playroom and dug around somewhere!! (in her stash i'm sure) and came out of the room with my other CC?!!!

 

[tw1nsmom]

OMG! I can totally relate!! My kids are 6 1/2 now, but when they were three they did the same thing. Mine weren't afraid though.

We had a little pool in the backyard and I used to strip them down on the back porch and send the twins in the house naked. This one day I had forgotten the cordless phone on the deck. I turned around and stepped the six feet or so away from the back door to get the phone when I heard the door shut and lock. The little munchkins were running gleefully through the house buck naked! I couldn't get them to come back to the door. I called DH (I still had the phone) and left a message on his cell. I had found a ladder and was part way through the only unlocked window when he pulled in the driveway. We promptly went out and had another key made and hid it in the backyard.

It does get better. Give it another year. I personally think three is more challenging an age then two. Good luck!

 

[minnieandme]

My DM just locked herself out of the house the other day. Luckily for her, I have a key to her house and I live right down the street.

 

[KerriSue]

I feel so bad for laughing at everyone Really

My cousins DD locked him out of the car once at a gas station. She just sat in the car laughing at her dad while he was beating away at the windows.

 

[mom2rb]

My twins are now 8. I have been locked out of the house, the car, the bathroom, ect... I know you don't believe me, but it is about to get so much easier. Three was harder than two, they could think of more things to get into. Hang in there.

 

[WNDMom]

My twins are now 8. I have been locked out of the house, the car, the bathroom, ect... I know you don't believe me, but it is about to get so much easier. Three was harder than two, they could think of more things to get into. Hang in there.

Well, I guess that's good to hear. I love my boys, but they can be quite challenging.

 

[tiff211]

You will look back at this and laugh, trust me.

a few years ago when DDs were 12, 31/2 and 18 month, they were playing chase all over the house. The two younger ones ran into the bathroom and DD3.5 climbed on her step stool and locked the latch. DD12 in all her adolescent wisdom decides she is going to bust the door open. Well, of course that didn't work. I hear the noise and come running. I am trying to tell Dd3 to unlock the latch. I knew she knew how, she had done it before. She keeps saying she can't. I keep asking her what her sister is doing. "putting your washcloth in the toliet!!" "Ohmigoodness! don't let her flush it. Don't let her flush it!" "open the lock honey, mommy's not mad!" "I can't" "Try, baby, I'll give you a cookie!" "I cant" "What's your sister doing now?" "pouring daddy's powder on the floor." "Sierra, stop that" (Very hard to discipline on the other side of a door!).

So, I couldn't think what to do so I call DH in tears, I don't handle things like that too well and he tells me to call the FD. I do and they show up in no time as the firehouse is on the next block. There are three of them. I tell them what's going on and they proceed to try to coax DD to unlock the door. Okay......she wouldn't open it for her momma so I doubt she would open it for a strange man. I think this scared her because she starts crying. I am now trying to calm her down. Because I have watch too many movies, I tell her to stand back and expect one of the firefighters to go outside and grab their battle ax and chop down the door and save my babies! Thank goodness they had more sense then I did and went around to the back of the house and opened the window! Now the baby starts howling because she has stranger anxiety under normal circumstances, never mind a stranger crawling through a window! I am trying to calm both of them down still through the closed door. Finally, he was able to pry the lock which had bent when DD aka She-Ra slammed against the door. I think 10 gray hairs sprouted that day!

Sorry to steal the thread, your story just reminded me of that time. That's why I say you will laugh, because it's been almost 3 years and I can crack a smile!!

 

[momrek06]

My DS who turned 21yo just the other day(12/30/06), did this to me when he was 2yo. It was early in the morning on a summer day. I still had the front door and the garage door closed. I slid open the back patio sliders to get something on our deck and my 6yo stepped out onto the deck with me...we were looking at whatever and WHAM, 2yo slides the door shut and flips the switch that locks the slider..........aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh....I am freaking out as I know there is no other way to get in the house. We both start yelling to him (as he is standing there just staring at us)...OPEN THE DOOR....well he can't figure out how and it is LOCKED.......I am literally seconds from running to a neighbors to call someone, police, I have no idea, because every time my 2yo walked away, I had no clue where he would go in the house....

ALL OF A SUDDEN, he comes back and I get this "brainstorm" to tell him to LOCK THE DOOR, LOCK THE DOOR for Mommy and BINGO, he flips the switch down on the slider and we are back IN...........

This freaked me so much it never happened again. AND btw: he is still the little sh** today as he was that day..........