When Rowan got Locked in the Bathroom

There was a day when Josh woke up and told me that no one should shut their bathroom door all the way because if you did you would locked in. I went to inspect what he was talking about, and sure enough, that the door knob was in such a way that when you twisted the handle the latch bolt would not move back all the way and you would be locked in. I did not test it, but I also noticed that it took more effort to shut the door all the way so, I just left if for the time thinking no one would need to do that, and then when Sam was done with work that day we would tackle fixing the door. 

It was Wednesday and Wednesdays have been the busy day for quite some time. Josh had started school but it was early day and we would need to go to piano soon after. I was doing school work with Rowan when he excused himself to the bathroom. Sam and I were chatting and he announced that he had an hour and half break before the next patient. I stopped him to listen to what I thought was crying. It was, and I knew exactly what had happened. Rowan was locked in the bathroom. I ran upstairs and he was crying and starting to panic, but after convincing him that I was there and we were not going to leave him and that we would get him out he calmed down a degree. 

Sam and I were together trying to assess the situation and trying to look at the door closely to figure what the hold up was. We did not have the screws on our side of the door, we could not take off the door, or the door knob. We thought about trying to go through the window but realized that wouldn't work either. I really didn't know what we could do..We brought the tools upstairs and handed Rowan first a video from Sam's phone on how to take off the doorknob and then the tools so that he could do it. 

Rowan had just mastered out of the program about directions and left and right. We were able to coach him on the direction he needed to turn the screwdriver so that he could loosen the screws. We would check in with him to see if the screws were coming out, and one by one he was able to take off each screw. About 20-30 minutes later we were able to take off the whole door knob and get Rowan out of the bathroom. 

I left this incident thankful for so many little things. I knew about the problem with he doorknob (sure I should have maybe done something about it) but, knowing about it made me prepared 

Sam just happened to have this sudden break from work at the exact time Rowan was stuck- this is not usual-especially one for that long

Sam was home. 

I was home. I was able to stay calm, and use a calm voice reminding Rowan that we were there, and that we would get him out. 

Rowan stayed quite calm. He worked really hard, and he followed directions perfectly. 

This was a day I was reminded that Heavenly Father's hand is in our lives. I know- Rowan got locked in a bathroom- but, that's what I am taking from it. 

 

Winter/Rowan's 7th birthday

It's warming up here as I write this.. writing about the very non winter that we had. We went sledding twice the whole season. 

No clue 

Good times, but only twice. The first time we went on Rowan's 7th birthday. Leading up to his birthday he was more excited than he ever had been. So, we took to the slopes. It was on a Tuesday and we were lucky because Sam happened to have that day off. We pretty much had the hill to ourselves. We bought a bunch of new tubes for the occasion. A unicorn with sunglasses for instance, to prove how serious we were about this, and how great our decision making skills are. We arrived with 5 new sledding tubes, and we left with 2. That is because there was not much snow and the tubes would hit the rocks/dirt and so sure enough they broke on their maiden voyage. We had fun while it lasted. Jonah surprised me this time, because he carried his own sled up the big hill every single time and he would just go on repeat. Never even asked for help.  

So, something noteworthy. Kaj broke his wrist. I don't recall ever writing about this, how it went down, anything- so we had our first broken bone  in our family. Kaj felt like the most unlucky kid that ever was. He even asked me if he just had bad luck, and I had to explain the many many hundreds of people who break bones every day. When I told my parents that we had a broken bone my dad's response was: "let me guess? Jonah." 😂 By a crazy turn of events. It was not Jonah. 

How? How did this happen? The shortened version: he fell. The story Kaj likes to tell: "I fell off a bridge." To which I fill in the rest of the story, "He fell of the bridge at the park down the street." I don't want to people thinking he is just standing on a bridge somewhere. The full story. He was playing a game at the park, he was jumping off the bridge and his shoe got caught and sent him hurling down. He had the cast on for 6 weeks, was very thrilled when he went in the day to have it removed and then they said he needed it on longer. So, after 8 weeks it was officially off. The weird thing is where the cast was...he has significant amount of arm hair, not exaggerating it's man hair on just that arm. 🤨 It was explained that that can happen that when bones are healing it's stimulating so much growth that can also cause arm hair?  I guess. 

Rowan's birthday getting ready for sledding