"Abre" La Puerta

"When one door closes another one opens", whomever said this obviously didn't have kids.
This Sunday, as we were enjoying our casual morning, we had quite the rude awakening. Just like that, Maya walks into our bedroom and says, “Baby is stuck in the room”. So we go and see what was occurring. Sure enough, Sofia, a.k.a Little Baby was in fact stuck. Somehow Sofia had locked herself in the bedroom, windows were locked and there was no way to get in. NICE!
This of course would have had a quick resolution, if we knew where the key was…but NOO. Somehow, the key was misplaced. So Carlos and I tore up the entire house looking for the key that was absolutely nowhere to be found. Little Baby at 17 months old was by herself in her bedroom. She cried for almost a half hour, until she decided to take a nap. Maya, being the brave older sibling that she is told us that she knew exactly what to do, because she had seen Dora (the Explorer) open doors all the time on TV. “Mommy, you say ‘Abre’”….OFCOURSE what was I thinking!, We tried this approach, but unfortunately it didn’t work, and all options short of knocking down the door were out of the question. So we had to call a Locksmith to “Abre” the door and gouge us in the process. At the end of all the excitement, Little baby was out of the room safe and sound, and the family was together again.
We learned some very valuable lessons that Sunday morning: 1) No where the keys are 2)”Abre” only opens the door in the Dora cartoon and 3) Within our family, we don’t need to lock anyone out or in.