Did YOU See Me?

Today, I gave Noah a bath after lunch because he'd had a few dirty diapers, and Ash is on work travel so I figured if we did bath time earlier maybe he'd get tired for a nap, and then we could just drive around at bedtime instead of our usual exhausting hours long bedtime routine.

While we were in the bathroom, I looked down for three seconds or so to grab Noah's towel because he had been splashing some and I wanted to wipe some bubbles from his forehead. Lately, he's been trying to use a little bath toy of his to drink bath water. Every day we explain to him that the bath water is not clean and that he can have a drink of water right after the bath. So I looked down and I heard the little toy go in the water then a quick noise that sounded like Noah gulping.

I looked up and asked, "Noah did you just drink bath water?"

He smiled from ear to ear then rolled his eyes to the side, his new look anytime he's about to or has just completed doing something mischievous. His smile got even wider as he looked right at me.

"Did you see me, Mommy?"

I paused for a second confused. He's two, right? Did my two year old just ask me if I saw him doing something naughty when I asked if he did something naughty?

I tried not to crack a smile with my eyes, as I looked back at him.

"Noah, Mommy is asking you if you drank bath water. Did you?"

Again, more indignant this time, he looked at me with the side eyes. "Did you see me?"

So I explained that I didn't see him but that I heard the toy hit the water and then a gulp come from him. And that it didn't matter if I saw him he was supposed to answer me honestly because he knows he isn't supposed to drink bathwater.

Again, he smiled then laughing heartily he repeated, "Did you see me? No."

I am in trouble.