Oh My God

I am so thankful that you didn't come home to find them at your house!!!

Can you imagine what you would have been thinking?

My son dialed 911 from the Target payphone when he was younger. He had gone to the restroom with an older sibling and got done first. So he was waiting outside the restroom and playing with the phone.

The cops hunted all over the store for him after getting a description from someone.

We were looking through clothes and they walked up to us.

Kids!

And I'm sure your house wasn't that bad. It always looks so neat and clean in pictures.

If the cops saw mine right now? Yikes!

Oh my goodness, my daughter did the same thing when she was 2! I got a stern "lecture" from the 911 operator.

I can see where Gabby was coming from, donuts = cops. She was just trying to let them know you'd be coming home with the donuts and to get there as soon as possible.

At some point in time all of my children have done this whether it be when we are at a store , or playing with my cell phone. Its like initiation rites.
Its probably my friend is the dispatcher for 911, and realizes its just melanies kids!

LittleMan dialed 911 when he was not quite one year old. I was clueless when the cop came to our front door, and I said "What seems to be the problem officer?" He saw the baby on my hip with the all-too-coy-and-innocent exression and knew instantly.

In his scrapbook next to "first step" and "first word", there is an entry for "first time the cops had to come to the door for you".

My #3 did the same when he was two, I didn't realize what he had dialed and just hung up the phone. When the ciop came I was naked! So I answered the door in a towel. The cops in my town love me..... My #3 is humongous, he looked like he was 5, and the cop insisted on having a little chat with him, despite me, in a towel, standing behind him muttering "He's 2, he just doesn't know...." over and over.

Yeah, small town cops, what a thrilling job.

Oh, man. Last year the Ex gave the Boy his own cell phone when he bought a new one, but he didn't take out the battery. That's right. And we'd been practicing the whole 911 thing, so he thought he would practice some on his own. Then he comes up to me with this confused look on his face, and he's all, "Mom? I practiced on my pretend phone but then somebody started talking back to me..."
But luckily I was able to call the cops right away and explain what had happened before they sent anybody out. Oye vey.

Too funny. When I was little and my parents were teaching me how to use the phone, they explained about 911 and how I should never, EVER dial it unless it was a real emergency. Blood and/or flames needed to be involved. They really drove the point home, because after that, I was so terrified of getting near a phone because I might ACCIDENTALLY dial 911. Even now, I'm a little nervous...

My 2 y/o did the same thing by accident. At the time I had laryngitis so when the 911 operator called back, I answered in a whisper. Really made her think something was wrong. Good to know the respond time in my area is about 3 minutes though.

Holy crap! Do you think they were getting back at you for making them clean house on a Saturday morning. ;)

Oh, that Gabby is a sly minx!

haha chickadee! i am also terrified I may accidentally dial 911! and i mean how would that even happen? When i was little I would call the operator (0) and ask her questions. like if she could see the future or if she knew where my Hello Kitty mirror was.

Y, o queen of the flickr, please bestow upon me some of your wisdom: (and I'll show you how to keep Gabs from dialing 911 by hiding the phone on top of the fridge at. all. times.)

So if I have a 20mb upload limit on the free Flickr account, and it resets every month, what happens to my photos? Are they gone at the end of the month, or are they still there? Does that mean I can only upload 20mb every month, but it will continually build a huge-o scrapbook, or am I wasting time and precious energy uploading stuff that will be gone come Sept 1?

Thankfully, gratefully, anxiously awaiting your response.

And Gabby looks adorable in her "2" pictures- hoorah for the Year of the Camera!

Oh, dear...that would suck.

My boy ordered wallpaper and a ringtone (on the cell) while mommy was in the restroom. Don't say a word!! I know what you're thinking, how long was I gone for? The hubby asked the same question.

That little sneakerpot! I bet those boys were scared. I can only imagine the scenerio had you been at home. LOL!

God, your life.....is so exciting!! Your little girl is a hoot and I would have loved to have been a lfy on the wall, to see your boys when the cops got there!! My son did that too and I got "in trouble" with the 911 operator!

We were at a party one night, playing cards with 4 or 5 other couples and the kids were running around. When the cops showed up at the door, we figured out quick that someone had called 911. In asking the kids, a little girl, about 6, was teasing the boys but said she had not called 9-1-1, she called 9-1-1-1-1-1-1! It was pretty funny, although her father did NOT think so! ...she just didnt' understand.

Oh.my.god.

That made me laugh so hard I farted.

OMG. I hope my boys don't do that. My 2 year old loves dialing random phone numbers and chatting. It is only a matter of time...

I would lie down and die.

Die.

So maybe I should re-think the whole "letting the baby play with the phone" thing?

But I did laugh a little at this. Okay, a lot. Am I a bad person?

Seriously? Dude.

I've got to put a stop to the phone-as-plaything thing RIGHT NOW.

Yep, my daughter did the same thing a few years back. Of course, we were living on a military base at the time ... a very boring, non-eventful military base, so at the first hint of anything even possibly remotely exciting happening, like my 1-yr old accidentally pushing 9-1-1 while walking around with the phone, we had about a dozen cops show up. I guess it was a reeeeaaaallllyyyyy slow night for them. :)

My son was 3 and apparently SO excited his mom (me) was making CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES he had to call 911 and let the dispatch woman know. Blessedly she was too a mother and did not send out the SWAT team. Kids. Never a boring moment is there?

Just thought I'd throw this in:

I used to work from home as a telephone operator answering calls for infomercials. I would ALWAYS get little kids calling in to order 100 dollar Disney packs, etc, and the bad thing was: I had to place their order, if they could give me their name and address and phone number. We would then bill it and ship it. I always tried asking for the "mommy" or "daddy" in hopes of sparing somebody some chaos later...

But one time I did have a little guy tell me his "daddy is asleep and smelled bad and his mommy is gone and he really really wanted the books" we were selling.

So don't let Gabby watch late night tv...

GIGGLE! (ok I am laughing like crazy) I have to say my children have never done this, HOWEVER, I have done this TWICE while cleaning the phone. Always nice to get the call from the 911 operator and have to sound obsessive compulsive and contrite while explaining the phone cleaning. Of course, in one instance I can blame a child, because he PUKED on the phone.

Oh my goodness. I would have DIED, my house has been trashed the past few days.

Too bad you weren't home though to take a photograph for the baby book;-)

But I am totally rethinking letting my baby play with the phone.

we found out several months ago that even phones that are no longer in service can still dial 911. ha. I gave our nephew an old cell phone of mine and the little bugger dialed 911 when we weren't paying attention. all we heard was, "911, what's your emergency? HELLO? 911, what's your emergency?" ha. my sister in law grabbed the phone and said, "I'm so sorry! My son was playing with the phone!" The operator just said, "no problem" and that was that. phew.

Ha! I just love that Gabby! But don't be letting her teach Vivian any of those tricks.

MMM . . Krispy Kreme.

Yup. It would appear that G-Unit has officially entered the realm of the "terrible twos". That little stinker!!!

And Jennifer, can I just say that your donuts=cops observation is brilliant :)

Been there, done that. Got the phone call back.

We didn't realize she had even gotten ahold of the phone, nevermind dial. hahaha.

totally unrelated comment, but I thought you would appreciate this based on your past post.. someone just reached my blog via searching for "whore" and "wife." I imagine they were dissappointed. Highly.

note to self: next time you call the cops on your obnoxious neighbors at 3am and they say they will send someone out but don't, just call 911 and hang up!

OMG! LOL!! I can't imagine your poor boys - holy crap.