Lillian Claire Altizer

Oh no!!!!

January 20, 2009 / 19 months old

Today, I was at home with Lilli by ourselves again, and I decided to go out and get the mail, nothing out of the ordinary. I grabbed the key to the mailbox, told Lilli that I'd be right back, and I shut the door behind me. We just moved into our new place about 2 weeks ago. I went to the mailbox, no mail. I came back to the door, and .... are you kidding me??? THE DOOR WAS LOCKED!! It was so surreal at first. I went up to each door in our townhouse row banging on the doors. No answer, no answer, no answer! Finally, I got to the last door, and as I was walking away, this lady came to the door. She let me in to call Matt. Twice the call wouldn't go through, so I panicked even more. Finally, I get Matt, luckily, and I told him. He immediately hung up the phone and headed our way. I just kept telling myself... she's okay, she's just watching TV. I stood by my front door listening for her; I didn't hear a sound. Then, I hear "mama", in a very unaware voice. I knocked, and she came to the door and tried to open it for a second. She went right back to what she was doing. Our neighbor stood outside with me, and said she saw a car coming. I asked her if it was green, but it WASN'T. But the car kept coming our way; the silver car gets close enough and I see that it was Matt. He runs up in silence and opens the door. We both rush in calling to Lilli, and there she is, like nothing happened, just watching the TV. She had and has no idea that anything happened. Thank you Jesus that Matt was able to get here so fast and that he answered my phone call!!!! I called to tell my daddy the story, and he said I need to write it down; that is why I'm blogging it now. Lilli, one day you will laugh about this :)

Matt tells me later:
He ran 3 stop lights and was going 85 miles an hour. He was already prepared to explain it all to the police officer if he was pulled over. Wow! He was really scared too!