Waterfights with the Four Year Old
posted in Frenzied Daddy |Of course I keep the squirtguns in the refridgerator. Doesn’t everyone?
The TT got a pair of big tank-type pump action squirtguns for her birthday. Now, I had a squirtgun, the kind you pump full of air and then you can hold the trigger down and hose the recipient. These are bigger, but you can only shoot one “pump” at a time. They hold a lot more water, too.
It’s fun to run through the yard squirting and being squirted. We put them on her list because the little pistols we had gotten were too hard to shoot; the triggers wouldn’t pull back for little ( three year old, at the time ) fingers. She loves them.
She also got a “big girl bike”- the DQ’s old kiddie bike with training wheels. She loves that too. She’ll want to ride her bike up to 9:00 PM and then when she gets up in the morning. Just try keeping her off. 
She wears her helmet every time ( got a new one of those too ). As she gets faster and faster, I have to run faster and faster to keep up. Those training wheels are never coming off. :p
I told her the other night that I couldn’t run behind her (hey, I was worn out) and she’d have to stay closer to home. I said I was “old and feeble.” She disagreed. She believes that “Ten is old and feeble.” I guess I’m not ten yet; but her sister shouted “HEY!”
