Kevin & I were at Wal-mart the other night looking around at the clearance items. Kevin saw this little "dinosaur egg" and pointed at it. So I looked at it and thought it might be fun for him. It was an egg shaped fizz ball thing. When you put it in bath water it bubbles up and turns the water green. After all the fizzy stuff goes away, there's a "baby dinosaur" inside. Cool. It was less than a dollar, and I thought it might provide some entertainment.
It provided entertainment all right, but not for Kevin.
First of all, I had Kevin carry this little blue plastic container into the apartment for me. I'm trying to teach him to help mommy and my arms were pretty full with groceries and our new green dinosaur fizz ball. He stopped along the way to the apartment and filled up his little blue plastic container with snow.
After much prodding, we arrive at the apartment and I, being more excited than Kevin about the green fizz ball, get Kevin's bath tub water going. Meanwhile, Kevin is playing with his snow and getting it everywhere! I "throw" Kevin in the tub and put his container of snow on the side of the tub. He wants it IN the tub. As much as I try to explain my deep knowledge of what will happen to the snow when he puts it in the warm bath water, he doesn't care and puts the container under the warm running water. The snow instantly disappears and my son is very confused.
"Where's the snow?" I ask him. "It's gone!!!" He exclaims. Again I try to explain that snow is cold and warm water makes it disappear. Kevin doesn't like that answer.
I decide to entertain him with the green fizzy ball. I unwrap the plastic on the outside and hold it in the tub. It begins to get bubbly and Kevin begins to panic. "No, mama!" and pushes it away. I think maybe he doesn't understand that it's supposed to be cool to see the water turn green and the "egg" to fizz so I try again. Same thing, only this time he is more adamant. "No, mama! Scary!"
So I fill the little blue container with water and put the egg in it. Kevin is content to watch from a distance. "Don't you want to touch the fizzy water, Kev?" Nope. Not interested.
His little blue container is now filled with green water and there's a tiny little green dinosaur floating in it. "Kevin, look! A baby dinosaur hatched out of your egg!!!" I pull it out and put it in my hand. "Scary, mama!" and he scoots to the other side of the
tub. Then my arm slips and the little blue container filled with green water is now infiltrating the tub. I have never seen Kevin move so fast!!! He was out of the tub in 1.7 seconds! He was terrified of the green water!!! (Too bad I didn't have a video camera running - I could have sent it in to America's Funniest Home Videos or something.) Poor Kev. I'm not sure why green water is so scary when he'll eat dog food and climb to the highest heights on the play ground. Maybe it just not easy bein' green.
