Locked in...

Yesterday morning I was putting laundry away in the kids' room. While in there, Sam and Rita were playing around me and Ellen was in her room. Sam shut the door and I kept doing laundry. Then Rita told me that Sam locked us in the room (Sam was with us in the room)! (The doorknob is turned around on their door...) Sure enough, he did. I tried all the hair clips in the lock and nothing but the key would open the door. I didn't know what to do as the phone was on the other side. I pulled the bunk beds away and took the window and screen off and stuck my head outside to see if any neighbors were around. The street was dead. I didn't know if our front door was even unlocked from taking Grace out to the carpool early that morning. So I did what any mom would do, I lowered Rita out of the window about 8 feet holding her arms praying that the front door was unlocked. It was. Rita came in the house and opened the door and said, "I rescued you!" Sammy was crying because he was so nervous about Rita being dropped outside. Later that day, Rita told Nate, "Mommy threw me out the window."