Splish-splash! But wait, it's not bathtime...

This past Friday, before we headed out to Ohio to visit Missy's family, Missy was in the bedroom, packing clothes and watching Eli. I was sitting in the office at the computer, not feeling well (I ended up being sick all weekend -- hopefully a decent excuse for not helping pack!) :-)

I became aware that I was hearing kind of a splashing sound. I must have tuned it out at first because I assumed that Missy was giving Eli a bath -- but then it occurred to me that I had never heard the water running to fill Eli's tub...

I hurried into the guest bathroom (located between the bedroom and the office) to find Eli happily standing up and splashing away with the water in the toilet! He grinned up at me, really proud of his fun new discovery.

Oops -- it turned out that Missy thought *I* was watching Eli! Well, no real harm done. (Fortunately, we have our stairway gates up and installed now so there was no danger of Eli trying to venture down the stairs while he was unattended.) I washed Eli off and changed his clothes (as his shirt sleeves were all wet), and told him that Daddy's sorry, but no, that thing that looks like a fun toy is actually not for babies.

So we need to keep the toilet lids closed! Of course, next, Eli will be figuring out how to open them. So we really just need to keep a closer eye on our little guy... and maybe order some toilet lid locks!