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There are quite a number of brightly colored plastic things all over the floor in Milliways. We're talking, easily thirty of each four types of manipulatives.

All

Over

The

Floor

You have not even SEEN a mess before you have seen the way a toddler can mess up a room with a bunch of tiny plastic toys. As for the toddler in question, she is planted somewhere in the middle of the mess, playing with the toys. She is still wearing the shirt with names all over it (BOO! being the prominent one) and the house shoes that jingle and sing. Every once in awhile she'll wiggle her feet and either jinglejingle or "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" can be heard. And next to her is a pink adult sized throw made out of what is possibly the softest material ever.

Oh the fun she's having.

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Bill comes up sputtering and quickly turns to Kate and Boo.

"She okay? I'm sorry Kate! She got away from me an I couldn't find her and she came out here an is she hurt?" He wipes water from his face and tries to catch his breath back, looking over Boo with worry.

Boo puts her head against Kate for a minute - smearing the pink ice cream and cake all over Kate and her clean shirt as she does so - slowly calming, and then wiggles to get down.

"Wad'r iisss!"

Wigglewiggle.

DOWN!

"iisssss!" Whiiiiiiiiiiiine.

"Bill, no, she's fine, you kept her safe; I think the fall just scared her — "

Satisfied that Boo isn't hurt, Kate lets her scramble down to play in the water, then turns to give him a concerned once-over.

She brushes back a lock of hair plastered to his temple, worry etched on her features.

"Are you okay?"

He watches Boo carefully when Kate lets her down back into the water and then grunts as he tries to get up to his feet.

"Yeah, I just...second time I've fallen today." A quick smile at Kate and then he decides sitting in the water a bit longer isn't so bad as his body, mostly his back, sorts itself out.

"I was worried she was in trouble." He says by way of explanation for why he's in the water and was making the attempt to drag Boo out. "Guess it's a good thing it ain't deep."

Boo gleeeees at being set down and splashes about in the water quite happily. She searches about in the shallow water and then her eyes widen.

"IISSSSS!" She points and runs back to Kate and Bill and tugs on their clothes and points more. "ISSSSISSS ISSSS!!!"

Kate returns Bill's smile and inclines her head toward Boo's splashing.

"Sorry she gave you a scare — we came out here a few days ago to look for fish."

Kate turns to Boo at the tugging and grins.

"Did you find another one?"

But before she stands to go investigate, she glances back to Bill.

"Promise you're not hurt?"

From where Kate had been standing, that fall had looked rough.

"You two don't know fishin is easier on dry land or a boat?" He asks with a laugh.

Smiling at Boo's enthusiasm he nods, "Yeah. Fish. Little fish, too small for eatin."

A bit rough, yeah. But he waves Kate off and tries to reassure her, "I'll be fine. Just lemme know if you see that squid or any three-eyed fish."

"eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!" Boo splashes back to where she spotted the fish and dances about gleefully.

"isssisssississsisssisssissssss!" She sings to herself.

"I think Boo's probably scared away the squid," Kate chuckles, nodding toward the gleeful splashing, then stands.

She tries to brush the cakey, ice creamy mess from her shirt, though it's a lost cause at this point. So she gives up and dusts her palms on the (relatively) dry thighs of her jeans and offers her hands to Bill.

"Need some help, sheriff?"

She's not convinced he's entirely unhurt, despite his nonchalance.

Sitting is nice, in Bill's opinion. However, sitting in cold lake water dripping wet isn't so he accepts Kate's hands and help.

Stifling a groan as he straightens up he wrings out the bottom of his shirt and looks at Kate, "Guess we jumped the gun on gettin you cleaned up, huh?"

Looking over at Boo he laughs, "Hon, you ain't gonna find any fishes that way. You'll scare em all off."

Boo glances at Bill and pouts.

But she likes the fish!

She points, head tilted slightly.

"Isss byebye?"

"Something like that," Kate agrees, glancing down at her shirt with a rueful shake of her head.

She follows Bill's gaze and looks at Boo, then wades closer to the toddler to see where Boo's pointing.

"Did the fish swim away?"

Bill heads over and looks down into the water, "You just have to hold still a bit, they'll come back. Fish aren't real smart you know."

He puts his hands on Boo's shoulders, trying to keep her calm long enough to coax the little minnows back out from hiding.

Boo nods seriously at Bill.
"F'ed isss hos."

She looks at the water seriously, searching for any sign of Fred-cousins.

Kate's lips twitch.

"She adopted a minnow and named him Fred last week," she explains for Bill's benefit, keeping her voice quiet in the name of the Very Serious Fish-Seeking going on. "And the lake is Fred the Fish's house."

"Oh. Well that makes sense." Bill smiles back at Kate then scans the water.

"There you go Boo. Look, look." He points as a small school of tiny fish drift back into view.

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!" Boo glees and splashes toward the fish happily.

"IISSSSS!!!"

"Sweetheart, hang on," Kate laughs, but gives up all hope of an actual reprimand. Even if the fish scatter, Boo's having far too much fun to rein in.

She gives Bill a sideways glance and a grin.

"You should take her fishing sometime."

Bar would probably even provide a Boo-sized Hello Kitty pole.

Bill lifts his hands from Boo as she goes splashing after the fish and laughs, "Got em on the run now, Boo."

Resting his hands on his hips he looks over at Kate and smiles, "If I can get her to sit still long enough for it. I have the feeling this is gonna be the end result though."

He gestures down to his wet clothes and laughs.

Boo does not seem disheartened by the fish scattering. she looks at the two adults with an expression that clearly expresses 'DID YOU SEE THAT? DID YOU SEE, DID YOU SEEEE IT, DID YOU, DID YOU?!!?!'

She squeeeeeees and looks back for more fishes ~~to scare~~.

"Probably," Kate teases, surveying Bill's wet clothes. She's trying to not stare appreciatively and nearly succeeding. "I wouldn't be surprised if she pushed you in."

Though Kate has exactly no room to talk, judging by the current state of her own clothes. ~~Or the fish tank now in her room, housing one Fred the Fish at Boo's insistence~~.

She forces herself to look away from Bill.

"Careful, Gracie — don't wade out too far, okay? It gets deep."

It's quite possible that Bill noticed the appreciative looks. He is smiling rather a lot. And not just at Boo's antics.

"Least she's burnin off that sugar." He notes, watching the fish chasing.

This would be an excellent time for Boo to Make Herself Scarce, with all of the already wet clothing and the unresolved S-E-X thing, but sadly two year olds are not in tune with what is best for other people.
They're very self concerned that way.

And so Boo just continues to splash about in a gleeful way. She's starting to get goosebumps, though, so it's possible this shouldn't be continued that much longer. (ALTHOUGH BOO WOULD DISAGREE!)

Kate's cheeks may be a little warm as she nods.

"She is."

The goosebumps are noted, and a line appears between Kate's brows.

"Looks like she's getting cold, though ... "

Then, a little louder, "Boo, why don't we go back inside and get dried off?"

"I know I'm startin to get chilly." He notes, running his hands down his thighs and trying to brush out some of the water.

"C'mon Boo, we'll go have some fun inside. Don't forget you still got all them toys all over the place."