Louisiana Livin': The case of the missing pump

This little blue part may not look like much to you, but it is the key part to making the water table work that my mom gave Henry for his birthday. The grandparents asked what Henry wanted for his birthday and the main thing I said was a water table. I mean he has a summer birthday so why not reap the benefits of all things water, right?

Well, the night before Henry's birthday, my mom, Nana, Bennett, and Cal all wanted to put this table together. It was around 9 pm and I just knew this was going to be too big of a project to undertake. Well, of course no one wanted to listen to me so they got all 42 parts out to put it together. About 3 seconds later they decided it was too hard so they just threw all the parts in the "boat" of the table and pushed it aside.

A couple nights later Neil went to actually put the table together and he got to step 4 which called for putting the pump in the table. It was no where to be found! We searched high and low. The trash had already been taken out so we couldn't check the original box. What to do!?

I called the company that made the table and asked them to ship us another one. It took about 2 weeks to get the part. We finally got a new pump and Neil put the table together.

Fast Forward to 3 days ago: Neil and Bennett were making his bed and guess what Bennett finds behind his bed??? THE BLUE PUMP! All this to say either put things together after the kids go to bed or don't let 3 year olds help!

We finally got to play with our fun, new water table! Henry really like chewing on the people that came with the table.