Today we went to visit the kids cousins M, V and P. We went to a splash pad in Keswick. It was pretty cool, there was a park attached to the splash pad, so we were able to set up the blanket in a central area and watch them in the park and playing in the water. It was a warm day, but not too sunny and the humidity wasn`t bad at all up north. The kids love playing with their cousins and the Baby thinks his cousin V is amazing.Tonight while I was making dinner the Boy came running downstairs crying! I thought to myself: 'crap! did his last triops die?' He said that the Baby knocked over the dish with his Triops in it! I immediately began to hug the Boy as he was in crying histarically. When the Husband came down, I asked him if he found it on the floor, because maybe it was still OK. So the Husband and the Boy ran back upstairs to find the little guy. They found him on a piece of wet paper, and the Husband carefully separated him from the paper and put him back into what was left of his water and carrots. Then a miracle happened! The Triops wasn't dead! He was alive and swimming around his dish!! I don't think any of us believed that he would still be alive after spending so much time outside of the water, perhaps he has horrible brain damage...but in anycase he was waving his 140 legs and swimming around the bowl, probably glad to be home. If he is not severely brain damaged, I am sure he was wondering what happened, and was probably pretty scared to be so far from home (when you are 1/2 cm long, the floor is a long way from the top of the dresser). So we learned another valuable lesson today, don't let the Baby crawl on the Boy's bed, because he will definately want to inadvertantly cause the most damage possible!
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