I Have Time

I am the world's meanest mom since I still won't fill the water table for the boys to play with. Never mind the fact that it's barely 60 degrees on warm days around here and that we haven't even gotten the hoses out of storage yet because it still freezes at night - Josh is obsessed with getting water in that table!

Well, today he decided to take matters into his own hands. He was going to fill that water table no matter what! And he was going to fill it with this:


Yes, that is a measuring cup in his hands. 1/3 cup, actually. He decided to fill it up in the kid's bathroom, march down the hall, out the back door, and then put it in the water table.


I let him do this for several reasons:

1. He was really tired and I was willing to try anything to keep him awake since it was four in the afternoon.
2. He was really tired and it's a million times harder to reason with a tired toddler than with a non-tired toddler.
3. I wanted to see how long he would keep it up and how much he could get done before dinner. Hey, a little curiosity never hurt anyone.

Thus his project started. He had made a few trips when I said "That will take a lot of trips to fill, won't it?" to which he replied without skipping a beat (and I'm not making this up), "I have time."

Bwaaahhaaahaa! Man, I love that kid. Seriously.

He made about six trips with the measuring cup. Of course, half of those times he got distracted and poured the water on the patio instead - apparently there were some bugs who wanted to go swimming.

Then he discovered an empty bubble bottle, which was a little bigger and easier to carry. So he started to use that, but, much to my amusement, he would only fill it about a 1/3 of the way.


He didn't get anywhere close to filling the water table, of course. But it sure kept him busy while I was making dinner.


What more could the world's meanest mom ask for?