The Scariest Bathtub Toy

I just thought this was a funny story, so I'm going to write a quick blog about it.

A couple of weeks ago, Zane found this toy in his game room that I think came out of a Go, Diego, Go! bath set. It was a little orange spongy starfish. He recognized that it was a bath toy, and wanted to play with it in the tub that night. Jody told him that it was the kind that would expand (or "get really big" as he put it) when it was put into water. Zane said, "I don't want my starfish to get bigger than me!" in kind of a scared voice. Jody told him that it wouldn't, so Zane was fine with it. 

Well, he left the starfish in this bucket that he has in the bathtub filled with water overnight. The next night, when it was bathtime, I looked in the bucket and noticed that the thing got HUGE! And not only that, but it had this horrible, slimy texture to it, and it was really heavy. It felt like a cold, wet, dead fish or something. I mean, you have no idea how gross this thing felt. But, I put it into the bath water anyway... I guess to see what Zane would think. 

So he comes into the bathroom, and gets into the tub. I told him, "Zane, look at your starfish!" (God, I'm such an instigator to my kids!) And he was looking for the little spongy thing he'd had the other night. When he spotted the "new" one, he cautiously started to try to pick it up, but it was so slimy and heavy that it just kinda fell out of his hands. He FREAKED out!! I mean, like, tears were practically coming out of his eyes, and he backed up to the complete opposite side of the tub crying, "I don't like my big starfish, Momma! Can you make it small again?" I was dying laughing at this point!! I mean, like, I'm almost laughing again right now typing this!! So I took it out of the water and put it into the sink. 

It shrank back down to it's original size after it dried out, but the poor kid still has no interest in it whatsoever!