06/10/2025
MY TODDLER WALKED INTO THE HOTEL ROOM WEARING A FULL SCUBA SUIT—AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA WHERE HE GOT IT
I swear I was gone for five minutes. Maybe six.
Just enough time to grab the room key from the front desk and refill my coffee. I left my husband in charge—he was watching Shark Week with our toddler, so I figured they were fine.
But when I came back…
There he was. My 2-year-old. Standing proudly in the middle of the hotel room. Wearing an entire child-sized scuba diving outfit. Flippers, goggles, air tank, snorkel, the whole nine yards. Wobbling like a penguin. Paci still in his mouth.
“WHAT… is happening?” I asked, frozen in the doorway.
My husband looked up like this was totally normal. “He said he wanted to be like the ‘swim guys’ on TV.”
“So… you had this costume?”
“Nope.”
Apparently, while I was gone, my husband let him “explore” the hallway, and our son somehow wandered into the kids’ activity room on the first floor—where they were doing an underwater-themed dress-up party.
And instead of picking a paper fish hat or plastic lei like the other toddlers?
Mine went full Jacques Cousteau.
The staff thought it was hilarious and just helped him into the gear.
The best part? He refused to take it off the rest of the day. Ate his lunch in flippers. Took a nap in the tank. Waddled around the hotel lobby like a tiny marine biologist on a mission.
He only broke character once—to say:
“Next time I be a jellyfish.”
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