Missing the point...

We bought water balloons for the fourth birthday celebrations and never quite got around to using them. Needless to say, it's not exactly water balloon weather at this latitude so the opportunity isn't really presenting itself. This has never kept our children from messy fun, so we came to find ourselves playing with them tonight -- where else -- in the bathtub. While A. was enjoying trying to get them to burst (which took real effort), D. decided they were alive in some fashion and was hysterical at the mere thought of them being popped and rendered nearly catatonic when A. finally succeeded in dispatching one. Here he is guarding the remaining ones with his life.