Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Water Play


John currently has an insatiable desire for water play. I try to give him many opportunities each day, but his requests never end! I have to chuckle because my friend Sarah was telling me this about her #4 child just a few weeks ago and that daughter is one week older than John, so maybe it's an age-thing. These days, John makes water play out of any cup of water he can get his hands on. I've been reverting from big boy cups (no lids) to straw cups. But then he pours water out of the straw, so I put him back on sippy cups, but then he'd shake water out of the spout. So I'd chose sippy cups from which one can barely shake water and he'd figure out how to take off the lid. When I gave John sippy cups with lids that are difficult to remove, he dicovered that he could take a big gulp, hold the water in his mouth, then spit it out onto a plate (or the counter) to splash in it and have water play! Unless I deny this kid all water to drink, I think he's going to find a way to have water play all the day long.

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  1. Oh my...Emma is the SAME way. She's been such a water baby for so long too. I can't keep her out of it. I've just accepted the fact that I'm going to have water spills all over the house for awhile...at least it doesn't stain.

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  2. Can you just line your downstairs powder room with some old towels and let him stand up by the sink with the learning tower and play with the water and some scoopers and cups? I don't really mind when Christina does this only she often also wastes a bunch of soap if I forget to move everything. I have finally gotten a shower caddy so hopefully that problem is solved. Best of all when they are done you use the sopping wet towels to wipe down the bathroom. :-) I still pretend to disapprove but it's one of my least hated mischiefs. :)

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