Parenting three

Last night while I was talking to my mother on the phone, my child took the last of his glass of milk from dinner and strewed it on the floor in a pleasing array of perfectly round droplets.

When I discovered this, and attempted to start the clean up process, he objected strenuously. "It's decoration!!" he wept. "NOoooooooo!!!!" There was much consternation at the sight of papertowels. Especially since I handed them to him to clean up his installation.

I am both a somewhat lenient parent and a very lazy housekeeper, and while there may be some things I'm prepared to leave on the floor in pursuit of art, milk is decidedly not one of them.