Here's our story about our exciting Saturday night.
The time was about 6:00 pm, shortly after dinner. The girls were playing in the living room and Noah was napping on the swing. In a matter of minutes, but more importantly, all in unison...Noah started to cry and the girls started to fight/scream/throw a tantrum over who could hold the cordless phone.
Daddy went to change Noah and mommy tried to distract the girls with other toys. Sophia said she heard a knocking at the door, but since I didn't and we weren't expecting anyone, I did not go check the front door. The knocking continued and it grew louder. I finally looked through the peek hole and asked who is it. He responded with, "Belmont police". I asked who is it again and then opened the door. Then I asked for ID. I was so paranoid that he was an intruder dressed as a police officer. He asked if everything was ok because they received a 911 call. I immediately thought (with embarrassment) that the girls accidentally dialed 911. John came to the front door and asked the officer if there was a message on the 911 call. The officer said, "yes, there was a crying baby and kids talking." He peeked in our house and said, "you got your hands full, don't you? Just as long as everything is alright." I told him that everything was fine and apologized because one of our kids probably dialed 911 by accident.
After the officer left, I checked our phone messages (our ringer was off). There was a message at 6:15 pm from a dispatcher who received a 911 call from us and if we did not call back, she would send a police officer to our house. Five minutes later, when we were calming down 4 kids in our house, the police officer showed up.
What are the odds of them dialing 911? Well atleast we don't have to worry too much about teaching the girls to dial 911. However, I suppose we ought to teach them to only dial 911 if and when there is an emergency. ;)
We like to think this is a typical evening with the kids, but this is a rare photo of them "playing nicely all together".
