Rescue 911! - Week 45

Katie Seymour and Henry!

There comes a time in almost everyone's life where you will have to call 911. This week was our moment......

A week and a half ago, Reggie received an e-mail from our good friend Heidi's boyfriend that he was planning to propose to Heidi on Friday afternoon. This was only a mild surprise, as Reggie and Laura had already been assisting a bit with his ring selection process. After the proposal, he was planning to go to dinner with her, and wanted to see if we would be available to come share in the surprise/celebration. So, taking the risk Heidi wouldn't say no :), we took off on Friday morning to drive to Chicago. (Since the focus of the blog is on Henry, I won't go into our trip any further, but it was an absolute blast and are very happy for Heidi and Matt!!!) We had lined up both aunts to watch Henry over the course of the weekend.

Newly engaged!!! Same ring size!

Surprise engagement party crew!

On Saturday evening, we get a frantic call from Aunt Allison telling us that Henry was locked inside of the house with Allison outside! It's a long story, but we have a tricky lock on our back door that can result in this if you aren't experienced with it. Luckily Henry was just sitting in the kitchen looking and crying at Allison. Understandabley, both were very upset! Reggie told Allison that the only real immediate danger was if Henry went over to our staircase and started trying to climb up them (remember last week when we stated that teaching Henry that "skill" might not have been a great idea :) ). While Reggie talked with Allison, Laura and Jenni Payne (who was with us in Chicago) called everyone we knew who lived within a 10-15 block area of the house. Not having any luck, our friend Chalice suggested we call 911, and the fire department could break into the house. Thus, Laura called them. Oddly enough, as Reggie was talking to Allison, we realized that the fire dept. seemed to be taking an awfully long time to arrive at the house. About that time, Laura gets a call from the CHICAGO fire department saying that they can't find that address! In the middle of all this, we were able to get ahold of Jenni's sister, whose husband luckily had a couple of buddies over as well. They rushed over and started looking for any potential windows that might be unlocked that they could easily get into. Finding that they were all locked, Reggie made the decision to have them break one of our back windows in order to crawl into the house. Crisis was averted, the boys boarded up the window, and Allison sat down with a glass of wine to calm the nerves! It's funny, Henry cried the whole thirty minutes that this all went on. Then, the second they were back in the house, he immediately went back to smiling and pointing at everything!

The "lockout" was something like this, except Allison was Bella, and they were both in tears! :)

On Sunday, Aunt Jen took over for Allison, and took him up to the pool so he could splash around. He loved that, as always!

Big thanks to the Aunts for watching the little guy!

Developmentally, Henry is starting to really like eating the food that mom and dad are eating, especially when we go out to dinner. I don't know if this this a referendum on Laura's cooking or not, but it has been noted! Also, as I said above, Henry LOVES climbing our stairs. I don't know what the great allure of all this is, but we spend approx. 70% of our free time chasing him to the stairs, carrying him back to the rug and his toys, and then back to the stairs.

Mom and Dad - It doesn't look like it here, but we missed our guy like crazy!