Knob-less

Whopper has a history with locks.  As soon as he was tall enough to reach doorknobs, he figured out how they work.  My parents have complicated locks on all of their exterior doors and most adults need help figuring them out but Whopper mastered them before he turned two.  In a split second, he would run down the hall and out the door.  Whopper found it especially exciting to lock his baby sister in a room and watch while everyone panicked. There was a long period of time when our bedroom and bathroom doors did not have doorknobs because they have been picked by a clothes hanger to the point where the inner mechanics are damaged.  Eventually, the doorknobs were replaced and I assumed the phase had passed.  

This evening he was back at it!  His timing couldn't have been more precise.  He waited for everyone to head outside to work in the yard and on his way out he locked the laundry room door which leads to the kitchen.  Our house has 3 exterior doors, 2 were locked and the other opens into the laundry room.  We were stuck outside, dinner was in the oven and all of the doors were locked.  For some unknown reason, we don't have a key to our other two doors.  I'm so thankful everyone was locked on the same side of the door and that Tyson came home as this was happening.  

What do you do when you are locked out of your house?  I wanted to use a saw and cut a child size hole for Whopper to climb through but Tyson had other ideas.  Grab a hammer and smash the door down! Luckily, my hubby was able to save the door by smashing the doorknob off the door.  So, we are back to (at least one) knob-less door!