During yesterday's child switch with Pappy, Xander got the spend the afternoon with Daddy while he ran errands and did a little light work in the afternoon. It turned into a rather expensive play date for Daddy.
You see, Daddy was measuring up some potential jobs for exterior remodel work, and Xander was tagging along after him. And at the last job, there was a swimming pool. Now if he was either of the other two boys, he might have been at risk for simply jumping in and wanting to play. But water baby he is not, at least yet, and that was not his problem.
Have I mentioned that he's sneaky? What he likes to do is pick up things (preferably when you're not looking) and then throw them into the water. Like, for instance, the potential customer's cell phone that was lying nearby.
Daddy, of course, should have known better. At our last pool adventure, he threw no less than four pairs of shoes into the water (thankfully some were ours and others belonged to understanding and highly amused parents of other children). He also tossed a water-resistant (but not water proof) watch into the deep end too, but no damage was done.
Not so with yesterday's adventure, where Daddy ended up paying a potential customer quite a bit of money for a damaged phone. Looks like Xander will not be invited on any more play dates with Daddy for a while!
