Kids are the darndest things

So the saying goes 'Kids say the darndest things.' Yeah, they also DO the darndest things. So I just say 'Kids ARE the darndest things.' I don't mean 'things' as being derogatory here - but saying 'Kids are the darndest people' just looses something... a je ne sais cois.

So K3 has been trudging into those terrible 2s I mentioned last week. Frankly if she's not in trouble, walking towards trouble or thinking about trouble, there's something wrong about the situation.

Tuesday K1 gets home from school - Ks 2 & 3 were playing upstairs nicely and I was finishing something up on the main floor before heading up. K1 went up ASAP to join in the fun (whatever the game fully was - I have no idea! I am not certain they knew. But they were having a great time without killing each other - life was GOOD...REAL good...for about 10 minutes.) All 3 were hiding at times. K3 has become a VERY good hider. So I never knew where all 3 were at the same time - and that's OK with me. They'd pop up & run again playing whatever 'game' it was. But a while later I realized I hadn't seen K3 in awhile - and by this time we had all been on the main floor. So I tell Ks 1 & 2 to look for K3. Nope - not on the main floor. I had K1 check the basement because I wasn't sure if the door had been shut. Nope, not down there either. So as I have Ks 1 & 2 re-check the main floor. I start to go upstairs, listening for anything as I go. I hear nothing. I just hit the top step, and I hear the water start to run in our bathtub. So I walk in there, and K3 is standing in our tub, fully dressed, playing with the water coming out of the faucet. "K3, what are you doing??" Her response:
"Water, water"
"Yeah, honey, I know. Let's get you outta there."
Socks off - they were drenched. Pants off - the bottoms were drenched. So l'il miss 1/2 streaker ran for a bit. I still have no idea where she was prior to the tub. And we'll never know, either!! If I HAD to guess, I'd say she was either hiding in our closet in the shirts - or hiding in her own closet. Those are the present faves anyway.

Now for today's drama. I was putting makeup on in our bathroom & K3 was playing in our shower having her diaper time prior to getting dressed (that's another topic). This is a very typical occurrence. It is rather cool that you can go into a little cubby place and close a curtain and nobody can see you but you can still see stuff and hear stuff too - don't ya know? Anyway, I hadn't seen her go get the step stool from the other bathroom upstairs and put it in there until it was too late. I had just turned to check on her when she had reached up and turned the faucet on in the shower.

Oh. My. Gosh!

I don't think that she thought:
that water would come out WAY up THERE, or
that the water would go on her HEAD to boot, or
that the water would be that friggin' COLD!

We had shock and awe in its truest form. The look on that poor girl's face was truly priceless and the tears were hugeungous. (Yeah it IS a word! HA! Well spell checker didn't catch it anyway... hehehe)

So the issue of the week happens to be water: l'eau, agua, wasser, acqua, woda, apa, voda, vepo. (Say that 3 times with a beat & it could be a song!) OK, I can handle the water part. We'll just have to see what it turns into next week. I can't wait!