Rock out with your lock out

So today I managed to get myself locked out of the house for the third time since I've been here. But only the first was my fault!!!

See, my sister's house is extremely well protected, there are high walls on all sides, bars on all the windows, and locks everywhere. So the first time I got locked out, Joan and I were putting Aidan to bed and he had left something on the back porch, so Joan asked me to go down and get it. The french doors that lead to the back porch were already locked up, so I went out the door from the maid's quarters (really, the house is not quite as lavish as this makes it sound). What I didn't realize is that there's no way to open the door to the maid's quarters from the outside, so without thinking, I pulled it closed behind me when I went outside, I grabbed whatever it was that Aidan wanted, turned around and stared dumbfounded at the door. I spent about 5 minutes trying to come up with a plan to get back in before I realized that the whole point of the house is to keep people who don't have key OUT of the house. So I sat and waited until the housekeeper noticed I was out there and let me in.

The second time I locked myself out was a few days ago. The french doors hadn't been opened in the morning, so I went out again through the maid's quarters, this time remembering to leave the door opened slightly so as to be able to get back inside. Well while I was chilling on the back porch, the housekeeper must have seen it open and shut it. So when I decided to come back in the house I was once again met with the odious un-openable door. This time, rather than being my savior, the housekeeper was my downfall. Finally I saw Dave moving around inside and knocked on the window and he let me in.

Well this morning takes the cake. I woke up and came downstairs to find my sister playing with Aidan out front. The front door is broken so we usually use the side garage door to go in and out. My sister asked if I would watch Aidan for a few minutes while she carried out some natural human function duties and I said sure. So I was hanging with Aidan for maybe a total of 1 full minute when he got up and started walking to the door, I called out to him and asked him to stay outside playing with me and not to go upstairs and see mama. He stopped in the doorway long enough to look at me and tell me that he'd be right back, before closing the door. I, of course, got up to pursue him, but when I got to the door found that he had locked me out. Make no mistake, this was not him accidentally pushing the locking mechanism, he knows about locks and what they're for and this was 100 percent malicious aunt lockout scheme. The cheeky little monkey. So I was out there for about 20 minutes until the housekeeper (her again!) came out to throw out the trash. I couldn't even go ring the doorbell as it's on the outside of the walls surrounding the house. I knocked and knocked but the door is so big and heavy that no one could hear poor little Al Pal.

It's okay though, I'm making up for a harrowing morning with overeating. Against my better judgment, I let Aidan convince me to make sugar cookies (the boy is obsessed with sifting) and have eaten a quarter of them so far today. Plus there was the full plate of nachos. Mmmmm, cookies and nachos...