Water, water everywhere - and in the walls

Recently Kyle discovered the joy of playing with water. More accurately, he re-discovered it, since both boys really have always loved it. But what he discovered is playing in the upstairs sink by himself with the soap (see blog post here). Today, he enlightened Owen to the joys of the sink and the soap.

Heather and I decided we could let them play for a couple minutes while we dressed (I am sure you can now see where this is going). All was well, we heard lots of chatter and splashing and delight.

I finished getting dressed and went to check on them. As I rounded the corner, I could see a stream of water rolling across the floor. When I looked in to see what they were doing, there was water everywhere.

They had filled the sink with water, and then filled it with washcloths and soap. In doing so, they covered the overflow hole on the sink. Water cascaded down the side of the counter and pooled all over the floor. Naturally, I exclaimed "Heather, I need your help now." She ran in, we removed the perpetrators from the scene to their roars of laughter and "what happened mapi?"

We proceeded to clean up. Five or so towels later after the floor was dry and the carpet draining in the tub, we found that two of the cabinet drawers were filled with water and under the sink had an inch of water as well. Kyle and Owen were now having a fantastic time jumping off the bed, running over, looking over the gate and asking "what happened mama/papi?"

I went downstairs and noticed that the ceiling was leaking and dripping on the floor - in several places. In fact there was a nice pool in between the kitchen and playroom. The drywall tape was bubbling and dripping. I went to the basement and.... there was dripping and a pool there as well. The water had travelled into the walls and was making the house circuit. Other than put more towels down there was little we could do.

We went out to the grocery store and by the time we had returned the dripping in the basement and the kitchen had stopped. The carpet is still draining in the tub.

Really, we only left them playing for about 5 minutes in total. But 5 minutes x 3 gallons per minute x twin 2 year olds.... 'nuff said.