Destination: Detour
Wow, hasn’t this weather in the South been remarkably beautiful the last few weeks?! It felt so great today that I could have spent hours outside. OH WAIT. I DID.
Yes, she strikes again… the curious hand of my little sweet Lydia. I don’t know if I would call it curious this time or not, but I’ll be nice and give her the benefit of the doubt. SHE LOCKED US OUTSIDE FOR TWO HOURS! I kept saying that I wanted to spend more time outside with the kids, but this wasn’t exactly on my mental agenda. I had just made sure the back door was unlocked and started playing outside with Steven, Lydia, and Meredith after a snack around 3 pm today. I went to the door to grab something and “CLICK,” there went the doorknob - locked as tight as a third-grader’s diary. “Ohhhhh, well.” The part that made me upset was that it took me four times asking her calmly (though not with a laugh or smile, lest she think I approve of this action), “Lydia, did you lock the door?” for her to affirm the truth. I didn’t remember her going behind my back to do it, but she finally confessed that she thought it would be fun to lock it.
“Well, it’s fun, I guess, if you want to stay out here until Daddy gets home.”
“Whatttt, Mommy?” asked Steven. (I need to video him talking; it’s absolutely adorable these days!)
“Well, Mommy and Daddy haven’t seemed to get around to making those spare keys, so we’re locked out for a few hours.”
We just played, ran around, and thankfully I had just given Meredith a bottle, so she drifted off to sleep in the outdoor infant swing. Thankfully she wasn’t inside alone, and thankfully I wasn’t outside alone. Eric unlocked us around 5 with a chuckle and said, “You’re locked out, huh?” “You have no idea,” I said.
Alas, it was a BEAUTIFUL afternoon. It was so close to perfection with a clear, blue sky and a mild, whispering breeze.
Mental note: Get spare key….and it’s obviously not smart in more than one way to go outside with three littles and no game plan….
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oh dear! SO GLAD you had a bottle for mere-mere!! well, you know i’m always telling you, “it could be worse…” it could’ve been ALL OF US locked out on the screene- in porch on the 2nd floor in st. augustine!! ha!
hey kristi,
it’s grace hargrove. okay, aylor did this to robert when he was about 1 1/2, but robert was outside and aylor was inside. cash and i had to rush home and let robert back in. thankfully aylor didn’t get into anything he shouldn’t have. robert said he could hear him in our family rooom the whole time so that was good. i think we went that day and had like 4 spare keys made ha ha!
Check our blog if you haven’t…How different our weather has been. How I wish I could go to Florida right now!! I’m so glad to be keeping up with you through the blog. Sounds (and looks) like our lives are similar with three little ones. I check you often!
Haha, Grace
So good to hear from you! I’d love to get back in touch w/ you but don’t know any of your info. We saw Rob and AB at IHOP a month or two ago while they were visiting - Anyway, hope you guys are doing great!
First of all, this is hiliarious– I laughed out loud. I did the same thing yesterday, as Hannah and I were enjoying the 70+ weather here, but thankfully, my front door was unlocked.
I am glad you were able to have a nice family vacation with Emily and her famiily. St. Augustine is where we go to the beach at Mom’s. She lives about 30 minutes away. I know you had a lovely time. Praise God for R&R!!!
This is a great story! My daughter did that once but locked herself and me out and the baby IN (sitting in her high chair!). We had to go to a neighbor’s and call Dad (while the baby screamed her head off!).
So nice to meet you! I loved reading about your sweet family. What a blessing to see those precious faces (I’m a sucker for little one in swimsuits!).
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