Wednesday March 16, 2005
Pffft. Zane is working on proving that theory. I can’t really go out today. (I think I ate something bad…dh had problems in the middle of the night, but his system works a lot faster) and don’t want to be far from the bathroom. As I was sitting in the living room, I heard ds turn on the sink in the bathroom. He usually just spends an extrodinary amount of time washing his hands, or playing with a rubber ducky in the sink, getting waterlogged filling and drinking from a cup, things like that. It can be annoying, but not really harmful. After a while, I noticed that it just didn’t sound quite right. Went into the bathroom and was VERY glad we live on the first floor. He got his hand positioned just right under the running water and shot water over every surface of the bathroom and there were puddles all over the floor. 
I got him out of the bathroom, locked the door behind me and stiffled laughter while he threw a tantrum outside the door. You could hear the sound of water dripping off of things. I know I should be mad, but dang it struck my funny bone. It was a little depressing to pull out all my nice clean towels and spread them over every surface to start soaking up the water, and it won’t be a joy to remove them later, but what an astonishing mess.
So, I locked the bathroom door to keep the battle down for the evening at least (and avoid further messes). The only thing is, the door doesn’t have an actual key…it has one of those holes you poke a very thin screwdriver in and fish around awhile to pop the lock back out. That is not the most convient situation when you are making unexpected bathroom runs.
hmmmm….now how big are those FuziBunz anyway???
I always think it’s so wonderful to be able to laugh when the catastrophes happen! I can’t manage it all the time, so I cherish it when I can. Sounds like he figured out a very clever bathroom trick!
I think I can tell you where he got that idea. Remember last Easter when we went outside and he found the water hydrant by my bird feeders? He certainly got a kick out of how far he could spray the water if he put the palm of his hand against the bottom of the faucet. At first he was happy with ‘just a dribble’. Soon he figured out that it went further if he lifted the handle to get more water. He had a grand time laughing at the rainbow of water, and even laughed when the water ‘backfired’ and he got a face full. I’ve got pictures! It was almost too cold for him to be out in the water, but he would step out of the water, give a big shiver, and step back in.
When you were here recently, he kept circling the water hydrant, but rather went for the trees.
I think you can blame that water feature experience on Gramma S. <teehee>