story of the growing gator, day 1

I've never had much of a green thumb.  Whatever I plant always flourishes for a week at the longest and dies a slow painful death.  Even the grass heads I used to have died after 3 weeks…but then I think they're supposed to have a shorter life than that right?  So I had to content myself with those toys that grow when you soak them in water. I used to have a couple of those things…one particular memory stands out though.  It was this red bug (kinda like a beetle) that felt like rubber plastic in its original form.  This one lasted for months with me.  By then, it got really big (about 7 or 8 inches long).  And by then, for some weird reason, I got so scared of it I wouldn't even touch it, much less look at it.  My mom got so tired of having it around that she threw it away.

So you can imagine my delight when I found this novelty toy at Hobbes & Landes.  It's Toysmith's Hatchin' Grow Gator.  It's originally inside an eggshell the size of your regular chicken egg.  Soak in cool water and supposedly by 48-72 hours, it'll hatch and grow. It's supposed to grow at most 600% of it's original size (about 6-7 inches).

Having nothing better to do this morning, I decided to start playing with my new toy.  I dumped the egg in a KFC bucket half filled with water (I knew there was a use for all those buckets I've stored) at 11AM. 

I got home almost midnight and this is what I found:

It didn't even take 24 hours!