Are You Smarter Than a Two-Year Old?

We took Troy to the park today, and we noticed that the splash park attached to the swimming pool was open and working. Troy wanted to check it out, so we decided to just strip him down to his shorts and let him go wild. He was in heaven; running through the spray, shooting the water cannons, and splashing in the fountains coming up from the ground.

At one point, he stopped and pointed at a white donut-looking thing hanging on the fence. “What’s that dada?” he asked me. Not sure exactly how to explain a lifebuoy to my two-year old, I told him it was a floaty. He understands that since we strap an arm and chest floaty on him before he goes in the pool. “Oh, okay,” he replied, satisfied, and headed back into the splash park.

Later on, seeing all of the other kids in the swimming pool, he told my wife, “Mama, I want the big pool.”

“No, baby, we can’t go in there. We don’t have your floaties.”

“But, mama, There’s a floaty right there,” he replied, pointing to the white lifebuoy hanging on the fence that I had showed him a half hour before.

I started laughing, realizing that we had been outsmarted by our toddler. I explained to my wife the conversation that had taken place earlier, and she said, “He’s unbelievable!”