9-1-1-1-1-1-1-1

This is what Ryland, our 18 month old, dialed on the phone today. Imagine my husbands surprise when the phone rings and it’s the Sheriff. Ry actually answered the phone, but Bob took it from him to find out who called. Whoa! Bob explained that our son had the phone, unbeknownst to us. Whoops.

Of course, a short time later, we introduced the police officer to Ry. “Ry, come meet the person you called on the phone, hunnny.”

It was a much more understanding situation than the last time 911 was dialed from our home. It was only a year or two ago. I was napping in the bedroom with Tege. The girls were watching tv in the livingroom. Apparently, Cassie was “annoying” Emily and so Emily called 911. She hung-up before talking to anyone, but not before the phone rang into their system.

While it wasn’t really funny… it sort of was. Em was certainly old enough to know better, but obviously, not really. The police officer was definitely not happy about it. I was so embarrassed, but I think Em was too.

Now that I think about it, several months ago, we switched our phone service to digital. One of the things our phone company told us was that we would not have the 9-1-1 service. I was assured by the digital company that yes, we would have it (but not in a power outage, which, with only cordless phones, we wouldn’t have regardless). I’d say a-yup, we have 911 service.

Tagged as: Daily Life, oops!, the kids