Max's Scientific Method

Before I get to the update, here are a few pictures I forgot to include in the last post.

First, from Story Time at the Library:

Caroline enjoyed climbing on the chairs and checking out the other kids

Notice how both Caroline and Daniel have their backs to the proceedings

Caroline pokes around in the librarian's box while Mr. Pickle leads the good-byes

Daniel liked Story Time!

Max was not quite as sure

Caroline tried to make a new friend by chasing Charlotte around the room

And from the Triplet Mommy get-together.  Daniel and Max each got scooped up by a Triplet Mommy (thanks Emily and Tara!).  At some point, Caroline decided that being on my lap was boring and went searching for something more interesting:

Yes, she climbed into the stroller to get a better view - of what, I'm not exactly sure!

And now for Max's scientific method.  

Bath time for Salvateenies involves a lot of babies standing up and splashing in the tub, while Mommy gets drenched and has mini heart attacks worrying that they will tumble backwards, whack their heads, and drown.  Luckily, they still tend to sit right on their bottoms when they lose balance.

The past few baths, though, at some point Max has looked down from his standing position and noticed the surface of the water.  Usually at this point the water is soapy and a little filthy (three babies' worth of cleaning, don't you know), so it is not transparent as it might once have been.  Max seems to see the line of the water's surface and surmise that it is solid, like a step.  He lifts his foot up high - always his left foot, and brings it down again in an attempt to step up onto the surface of the water, only to be astonished and perplexed as his foot goes crashing through the water and down to the bottom of the tub. He repeats the attempt, and then tries again, and again, trying over and over until he gets frustrated and tries to climb out of the tub and we have to wrap him up in a towel and proclaim bath time over.  

I'm wondering how many baths it will take for Max to accept that the bath water is a liquid and not a solid.

Or to accept that, much as we may praise him and think he is wonderful, he cannot quite walk on water.