We're gonna need a bigger door...

[pyat]

So. 10:35 PM. Sitting in front of the computer, waiting for the Canada Day fireworks to stop so I can go to bed.

I hear a "click, click" at the front door - the sound of the bolt being drawn. I stand up, and I hear the bolt hastily being slid back in place. I step into the hallway, and there is my 2-year-old, in her footie pajamas, on tip toes, with a sippy cup gripped in her teeth, closing and locking the front door.

Time to get a deadbolt on the doorframe, several feet off the ground...

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[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Egads!

Mini Houdini is similarly capable of escaping bed, I take it?

[foomf.livejournal.com]

Any clue whether she was coming or going?


I suspect "What's that noise?" was in her sneaky little head.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

See, this is how to work it: first you need sensors on the doors and windows, to keep your precious kids safe. Then, you need a centralized monitor for them. And automatic deadbolts. And then, since you're rewiring the house anyhow, that's when the computer-targeted dart guns loaded with animal tranqs go in, and then you build the turret with the lightning cannon! And and.. and..

...

Yeah, a deadbolt would be better. But think about the motion sensor, too. That one seems to have a death wish..

Hey! Lunch?

[kisekileia.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Adventurous, sneaky little one!

[doc-mystery.livejournal.com]

You realize, of course, that she was sneaking back in...

::B::

[used_songs]

Oh my goodness!

[anidada.livejournal.com]

Uh. She's a very good climber... I'm thinking the deadbolt isn't gonna cut it. Coded lock, perhaps?

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

...hence the sippy cup.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

*nods* She was definitely on her way to see the fireworks. She'd seen some earlier in the evening.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Not usually, though if the chair is near the bed she can!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And robots!!

And lunch would be swell! Wednesday? Friday? Next week?

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Very!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

And it would explain her "Blue's Clues" tattoo!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

The screen door has a bolt she can't reach, and would not have the strength to open - I've left it on today and she can't get out. But a coded lock is definitely the next step.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Next week, for sure. We'll hash out the details.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

She knows which button does what on the tv, and has started to figure out the VCR - she knows stop, play, and "hit stop twice for eject." If we did the coded lock, I'd give her three months to figure it out - and then where do we go from there?