TruTV Water Criminal

So Saturday we took the little turkey to the toy store and let her run around looking for her tea set. She had a lot of fun just looking at all the toys. Then we found the tea set we'd been looking for. We wanted the experience to be memorable for her, not just about buying her another toy, so she carried it herself, I gave her the money and she paid the clerk for it, and then got the change and receipt back, and of course carried the bag with her out to the car.

After that we went to the store to do some grocery shopping, and we let her pick out two snacks that she wanted to use for her tea parties. She picked cheetohs (big shocker there) and pink sugar wafers. Ricardo wanted chocolate ones, and he was trying to convince her: "NO, Papi. I want PINK ones."

So when we finally got home she was bursting at the seams with excitement to break in her new tea set. I unpacked it and set her Dora table with everything, then filled the serving tray with the pink wafers and cheetohs. I filled the tea pot with blue Kool-Aid and the 3 of us sat down to tea. This first tea party was pretty uneventful. Ellie was giddy with excitement.

Fast forward to Sunday, after church. Another tea party. All 3 of us are sitting at her table, having water and the same wafer/cheetoh combo.

I start speaking in this old British lady accent, (not unlike Mrs. Doubtfire) trying to make the tea party feel authentic, and Ricardo, never having seen this side of me before, is cracking up. In general, it was a silly atmosphere. As we're enjoying the last of the soggy cheetohs (yeah Ellie spills the tea sometimes), Ellie decides out of nowhere that SHE wants to be silly too. Ricardo and I are laughing at my Britishness and Ellie picked up her full teacup, and flung the water in Ricardo's face!!! It was like slow motion for me. I saw it happen, but I couldn't quite believe it. I fell over laughing at Ricardo's shocked wet face.

The funny thing is, her aim was impeccable. She really hit him square in the face. It couldn't have been more perfect.

I think we need to take her to the splash pad or the pool sometime soon. She seems to have a thing for flinging water. Later on that evening, I was on the computer and Ricardo was messing with the receiver trying to get the speakers to work right. All the sudden I hear this huge splash hit the carpet. I turned around and Ricardo was looking down the hall, shocked.

There was a 3 foot long splay of wetness on the carpet. But Ellie was no where to be found.

We both stood up and walked slowly to her room. We found her "hiding" on her bed, much the same way an ostrich hides: "if I can't see them, they can't see me."

Translation of body language: GUILTY.
But where was the evidence? What had she used to fling so much water?

Ricardo and I like to watch TruTV, police chases and dumb criminals and whatnot. One thing that never ceases to amaze us is when people who are being chased on camera throw their little baggies of dope out the window. With the police right there behind them, and the helicopters filming from above, they think no one will notice when they toss a bag of white stuff out the window. It kills us every time.

Well, that is what our daughter did.

We found a dripping purple Dora cup on the far side of her room on the floor.

"They'll never pin this on me, they've got no evidence!"

My child, the TruTV criminal.