April 16, 2012

• April Showers

  This afternoon, I was in the backyard cleaning things up for Mattie’s 3rd birthday party weekend. I did some sweeping and then decided to hose off the patio chairs, tables, and cushions. Caden has had a thing for the water hose since he was 18 months old…he still does the same thing, stands next to me and tries to get his hands, feet, or head wet. I decided to give him a treat and surprised him by turning the hose on him. Caden ran and laughed and loved it. I did it a couple of times and the two of us had a good laugh. Now, Mattie has never gotten wet in her clothes before and made it very clear that she did NOT want to be sprayed and wasn’t sure about me spraying Caden. So, I didn’t spray her and went back to hosing off the cushions and hanging them on the fence. As I was hanging a cushion, I was suddenly caught off guard by Caden spraying ME! Caden was standing pretty close and I was able to turn around and snatch the hose out of his hands before I got too terribly wet. It was actually a nice little shower. We had another good laugh, but I made it clear to him that I did NOT want to be sprayed. He was the only one in the backyard that wanted to be sprayed today. Then I gave him a good hose down and it made so very happy. Anyhow, I went back about my business and trusted him to leave the water hose alone. The child is every bit as ornery was, just not as obedient. Because it would’ve been awful tempting but I don’t think I would have dreamed of spraying my Mom again. Oh, but Caden sure did spray his Mom again.We have one of those nozzles that doesn’t have the trigger pull, but a handle that you can pull back and leave on.  And this time, he was smarter. He started spraying me as I had my back to him and he was a good ways from me. I moved and started yelling “Stop! Stop spraying meeee!” His aim never wavered and I started towards him to get the hose. Oh, I wish that I had a snap shot of his face. You should’ve seen the surprise combined with sheer delight as he was SOAKING me! His eyebrows were raised nearly to his hairline and he had a huge delivish smile that was emitting shrieks and laughter. I persisted with my demands for him to stop and he just continued moving backward with his hands cemented to the nozzle that was wide open and pointed directly at me. The kid was NOT going to stop! I raced towards him and grabbed the nozzle. As this is taking place, Mattie is standing in the play house SCREAMING at us to “top it, top it, top it!!” Once I shut the water off, I look at Mattie (who is at my eye level because she is in the play house) and she is extremely upset with real tears in her eyes. I asked her what was wrong and she said “I taid top it!” and pointed to a few, small, spots of water on her shirt “Now, my puple shirt is all wet!” She started to sob a little bit because she has drama queen moments. I considered showing her what ”all wet” really was as my hair, shirt, bra, shorts, panties, and shoes were all sopping. Instead, I had a good chat with Caden about stopping when someone wants you to stop. Even though I laughed the first time he did it, which is what he reminded me. I had to go inside and have a good laugh to myself and call my Mom to tell her, because the whole thing was comical.

  I should write about life and our Easter trip and how we don’t have to move to Midland (woo hoo!) but I’m beat physically, mentally, and emotionally. Just wanted to share the bright spot in my day.

  Love to all!

  • 10:47 pm
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