Swimming with Alligators

We purchased Gabriel an Alligator swimming pool yesterday. Perhaps it was the animal choice that we should have thought about more thoroughly. Misters was having nothing to do with it. I put him in it, and the tears started streaming down his face. He was mad, screaming about how mean mommy was for putting him in there, wanting out and away from the green creature. Good thing I didn't spend all day with the hose hooked up to the kitchen sink to get hot/warm water for his little body instead of hose water. Good thing I didn't heat up and boil pots full of water to make it even warmer still. It was like 75 degree water easy. My friend, Nikki, held the hose on the kitchen sink (and Josh did later to make it even more warmer) while I tried to warm the water up on the other end by releasing some cold water and hosing in warm water. When I got in the pool with him (with a selection of his favorite bath toys) he was happy go lucky, as if to say, "Why are you in my pool mom?" Kids.