Today our dog needed more food, so I went to the garage to fill her bowl up. Now when I go out to our garage whether it’s to take trash out, or go warm up our vehicle I ALWAYS shut the door that goes from our house to the garage because my son (20 months old) likes to follow us out there and there’s a set of stairs that I’m terrified he will fall down. Anyway, I went to get the dog food and I made my way up the steps, I heard my son giggling. I went to turn the door knob and my heart SANK. He had locked the door. Panic just rushed over me. I shook the knob like it was somehow going to unlock and I kept saying “Harvey! Harvey, what did you do!?” My mike was racing, my phone was sitting on the couch where I left it, I’m 24 almost 25 weeks pregnant and my neighbor lives on a hill and of course it had snowed and their hill was a sheet of ice I was scared to try to walk up it and also leave my son all alone in our house. Then it hit me, the spare key! But I couldn’t remember where my husband hid it outside. I looked under all the bricks in the brick wall next to our driveway. Nothing. More panic, and crying. Next was the door mat, nothing. All of a sudden I could hear and see my son hitting our dining room window and laughing as he saw me frantically running around our front yard in my PJs in the snow. Then I finally remembered my husband telling me where he hid it! Under one of the solar lights on our walkway. I picked one up, nothing. Luckily for me the second one I lifted up, there it was! Thank god, although I did break the solar light in half yanking it out of the ground. I grabbed that key and ran back to the garage door almost falling in slushy mud/snow. I have never felt so much relief in my entire life as I did when I opened that door. I walk in and my son greets me with a smile and I pick him up and hold him close and just cry. I cried forever, I couldn’t calm down. I wanted to call my husband but he can’t have his phone where he works. So I settled with several long and frantic texts sent to him to help get all of my anxiety and emotions out. My biggest fear was being locked out of my house with my son inside and it happened. How!? I had no idea he was capable of reaching the door knob. Well a few minutes pass and he’s running and playing then I watch him strut over to the door knob and flip the lock on it back and forth like it was nothing. Well! He learned something new and it would’ve been nice if I knew about it! Although this whole thing only lasted about 5 minutes it was the scariest 5 minutes of my life! Absolutely terrifying, trying to think straight through all of the panic was incredibly difficult. I just keep thinking how much worst it could’ve been. Anyway, I just really needed to tell someone else. My son is napping now and I feel so horrible about myself. I know it was an accident but if something really bad were to happen I could never forgive myself. Needless to say, I’m going to have 5 extra spare keys made. Lol. Has this ever happened to anyone else? Or has anyone had any scary experiences of their own?