The Locked Screen Door - Sierra Story

We moved to the farm when Sierra was one so that was in '99. Our house was soooo icky, but we made do and now it's just perfect. Anyway, We had just put a new screen door on and there was a lock on it. We had just gotten home from work and I put Sierra (I would say she was bout 3 yrs old by this time) in the house so I could carry the stuff in from the truck. I saw her playing with the lock, but didn't think anything of it. It is a full length, glass door and so we were making funny faces at eachother while I was walking to the door. I tried the door and it was locked. I tried to sweet talk her into unlocking the door and it just didn't work. I was being nice for about the first 15 minutes and it just didn't work. She wasn't strong enough to get the door unlocked. I wanted to stay calm so she wouldn't get scared, but I thought how on earth am I going to get in the house? I was getting frusterated and then I started crying and so did she. I felt so bad for her because her face was just tear-stained. I remembered I had my cell phone with me so I called Jon to see when he would be home and if he had any ideas on how to get into the house. Each door and window we thought of, was locked. Before we put the addition on in 2004, there was a hole in our house in the footings so the previous owners could throw wood into the house through this hole. I would say it was about 12"x12". There was a cover on the hole, but it made putting wood into the house a lot easier instead of having to bring it down the steps. Jon was home and looked at the hole and figured a friend of ours, Dan Meyer, would fit through the hole. (Jon and I would not be able to fit through the this hole.) It was kind of funny because we called Dan and told him we needed him to break into our house for us. lol. We explained to Sierra that Dan would be coming up from the basement to help her with the locked door. She knew Dan, so she was fine with that. Dan arrived and fit through the hole no problem and was able to unlock the door for her. She was soooo happy to be out of the house and I was so happy to be able to go into the house!! When the door was locked, we told her she had to stay on the other side and not roam around the house. If Dan wouldn't have fit, then we would have had to break a window, but we didn't want to have to resort to that either.

Now since we have our addition on, we have a programmable door opener so we don't need a key to get into the house. Now to remember what the code is. . . lol.

Peace.