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Posted by Mommy Woobie on March 21st, 2008 in Baby Quirks, Family Quirks, Kids' Imagination, Proud Mommy

The Indoor Pool Battle Saga

For forty-five minutes yesterday, our baby the Cars addict turned summer pool monster, waged war against an army of rubber duckies. The battlefield was a small rubber pool artificially inflated using an automatic inflator and Daddy’s breath.

The baby was splashing happily in the pool when I arrived with a Mommy rubber duck and a baby rubber duck. I placed these inside a small orange pail and floated the whole thing inside the pool alongside the splashing baby.

The baby did not take this well and struggled to move away from the duck army. The problem is, the ripples he caused while walking around the pool propelled the orange pail and the ducks closer to him, so that it seemed as if they were following him.

The baby won’t have any of it, and while swimming (walking) to the far end he realized one grave reality: he cannot out run the ducks.

He then set out for plan B. He sat in one corner of the pool and waited for the ripples to subside. After which, he patiently made slow but magnificent waves on the water using his arms, waves he sent out to the duck army. The orange pail which was the duck army’s vehicle of choice capsized under the onslaught of the waves. The mommy duck struggled to stay afloat but the waves were too great. She too capsized.

Not one of the ducks survived the baby water monster, who screamed and kicked when we told him that he was shivering too much to continue playing in the pool.

THE END.

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