Friday, July 25, 2014

The water sprayed herself, and the toilet paper became bigger and bigger...


You must have heard - for many great pieces of art and literature - the artist/ creator says this just came through me - almost like it created itself. Same becomes true for mischief with my little boy. It just comes through him! Read on.

One of our toilets has a water spray for sanitation. He recently discovered how to use this. And the next thing you know - is that he is holding it and spraying water all over the bathroom. This was too thrilling! Soon the bathroom mats were soaking wet - as was the floor. It was one of those days, when I thought taking advice from the books on parenting would be ideal - so I stepped to another room to keep myself from going berserk and to take the time to restore my cool. After some time (I suppose after his heart's content of spraying), he came to me - he knew I was not exactly thrilled about this - so he came to explain the situation to me. He explained the complete mechanics of how that spray works - with very emphatic (and extremely cute) gestures; ending it with "The water sprayed herself". To a casual passerby, it might have looked like a little boy fighting tooth and nail to keep the water spray in his hands; and spraying all over the room - but in reality it was water spraying "herself" ;)

Same day a few minutes later, he went to the toilet - and grabbed the toilet paper and of course ran around. Something about my facial expressions must have indicated to you that it needs to be rolled back. So we did this exercise of rolling a few yards of toilet paper back together - where I was trying to make it look like you are the one who is rolling it back - while trying to make sure the paper actually aligns on the little holder. This turned out to be so much fun for him, that he thought of repeating this - when I was not looking of course. I went downstairs for something - and when I come back - I see the toilet paper is rolling all the way down the stairs. Your response to my reaction (which mainly comprised screaming) - "Mommy, the toilet paper became bigger and bigger"
Much like Alice in Wonderland I suppose!
 

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