Locked in the car!!

Ok, so this post is coming a day late but after the day/evening yesterday I had to have a day to recover. Yesterday we spent the entire day (10-4) shopping for a new vehicle. My sister is buying our little orange beetle and we have been talking about getting another vehicle for quite some time now. Well, we found one!! It' is a 2007 Mazda CX-7 and it is gorgeous! It has leather seats, sirius radio, remote key start (this is important for the story) and most of all it has some room to lay seats down if we ever need to bring something big home; we had to bring our BBQ grill home in the Beetle but it worked!!

So, yesterday at around 6:30 or so we decided to take it out to go get ice cream. We soon realized the car seat was in the white Mazda (yes, we love our Mazda's) and so we decided we would go out and buy another seat and move her current seat over to the new Mazda so we could all go do that together. We put Ava inside the new Mazda and Chris began that process. I went back inside the house to get a towel to put down before he put the seat on the leather seats. When I came out Ava was in the passenger seat and Chris shut the door on the side he was working on just for a second......and that's all it took! All the other doors were shut (remember, i had just stepped back into the garage from bringing down a towel). All of a sudden our very smart little girl picked up the car keys that were laying in the seat and she hit the button.....all the doors locked and the car started! Yep, that's right our 2 year old had locked herself in the car and started it all with the click of a button! I can't decide whether to laugh or cry so I proceed to do both and then start to panic.

We just bought this car a couple hours ago and the kicker is it only came with one key, the key that Ava had inside the vehicle with her!

Let the coaxing begin. It went a little something like this......

Chris: Ava, come hit the button (Chris pointing to the unlock button on the door)
Me: Ava, push the button for daddy
Ava: NOOOOOO
Chris: Come on baby, just push the button and we will go get ice cream!
Me: Ava, you want mama to get in with you? Ok, push the button
Ava: NOOOOOO.....followed by tears

So, thinking this child could any minute put the car into drive (yeah, probably not likely but who is really thinking rationally when their toddler is locked in a running car) I run inside and call 911. Now, this is the first time I have EVER called 911 and yes, I was the hysterical mother on the other end. The dispatcher was very nice and was going to send someone out right away but in the mean time suggested I call the locksmith (duh, why didn't I think of that on my own). So, I hung up and did just that.

After all my calls had been made I ran back out to the garage and hear Chris yelling "NOOOOO". Running even faster to the garage wondering what could she have done now upon arrival I see she has proceeded to turn on the windshield wipers (and I thought it was something serious). So while we patiently wait for the police to show up Ava has proceeded to turn on the heated seats and the windshield wipers but for some reason can not and does not want to hit the unlock button.

The police officer arrives and he tries the same thing...."come on Ava, hit the button" shining his flashlight on the button she needs to hit. He also put out spokes behind the back tires that way if she did put the car in reverse at least it would be stopped by flat tires before it backed into the house across the street. I decide to walk around to the drivers side of the car and continue asking her to hit the button. She begins to hit buttons on the steering wheel and so I ask her one more time "Ava, honey, hit this button" as I point the police officer shines his light on the button and VOILA she unlocks the car!! I hurry and open the door before she has the chance to lock it and again and give her the biggest hug and love a mother could possibly give.

We thank the police officer and send him on his way. The locksmith never did show up but I did call them back and told them she unlocked it and we would not be needing their services.

We did end up making that ice cream run and some how it tasted even better that evening!

(Sorry no pictures of this incident, I was too panicked to think to grab the camera)