...3, 4 LOCK the door

Yesterday was a first for me.... the girls chose not to nap. This was not the first time, but what happened during the nap time process was not pretty, and was a first. I was trying to get some billing finished and B was watching a Clifford movie that we got from the library (can't beat that). For over an hour I heard some playing, screaming, jumping, laughing and banging. I went upstairs about a million times, while in the back of my mind I was thinking, oh well, they will eventually fall asleep and then they will sleep later than normal and we'll have a fun, happy evening. (Kent and B were going to a friend's so it was just going to be the girls and me). HOWEVER, that was not the girls' plan. After an hour and a half (I held out hope for a LONG time), I heard screams of terror. I thought for sure someone had broken something. I quickly went to their room and tried to open the door....no such luck. It was locked! (First of all, why do we have locks on the bedroom doors anyway??? Of course, we had no kids when we chose this, but kids or no kids, why would we have locks on the bedroom doors?? What were our naive, young selves thinking?) Anyway, a wave of panic came over me, but I knew I could get them out. Meanwhile, I can hear Ellie FREAKING out. She kept saying over and over, "You do it Mommy, You do it!" As in, open the door Mommy and get us out! I went to the bathroom and got the little tool, gadget thingy and got it out of the drawer. I calmly started twisting it in the lock for what seemed like forever, pretty soon, I was feeling very hot and sweat was starting to form on my brow, while Ellie is still freaking out. I assumed Dani was just standing there laughing at the whole episode. I kept jamming the damn tool in the door knob, but I couldn't pop the lock. Brayden kept running up and down the hall giving me REALLY helpful tips. :) I finally took a deep breath, started laughing (I guess inappropriately, but what else could I do?) and finally was able to twist the lock. I opened the door and Ellie could not have been happier to see me, however Danielle (the one who got us into this whole mess) was choosing to be oblivious to the whole thing and was cooking at her kitchen. EERRR, I guess nap time is over. This made for a very enjoyable evening, with two, grumpy two year olds all to myself!

P.S. I really wanted to grab my camera while I was picking the lock and snap a pic. as soon as I got the door open, (I knew Dani would be doing something w/o even caring about what was going on), but I thought that might be a little over the top of inappropriate.