Angry Frowns - Euan 14 months old

I was sitting on the floor with Euey today; we were revisiting an old friend, a book, called ‘Birds of Australia’. As I was pointing out the Frogmouth was actually an Owl, Euey started to tip the water he was drinking onto the floor. Completely out of character I responsibly asked him to stop. He appeared to catch the irony of this and gave me a cheeky grin. Unperturbed, I deflected this frontal attack of my sensibilities by frowning at him. He looked at me curiously. Detecting an atypical win I intensified the frown and believe I even looked a touch angry. His eyes widened and I took what appeared to be an opportunity to cement my looming victory. “Don’t spill the water, please” I demanded. His face slowly changed, but not as I had expected. Now he was frowning and looking a touch angry. We had reached an impasse, the tension intensified, the silence got louder and then without ado it ended. We broke into simultaneous laughter. Then we stopped and started the frowns again followed by the look, of anger that is, and came full circle with the crescendo of laughter. This continued for a long while.
While this pantomime played its course the water had stopped spilling.
An inadvertent success for sure but I’ll claim it anyway, it may be my last for a while.