Adam's Bath

Adam has always loved his bath-y. Something I do with him every night...I loathe to admit he was one before I gave up sitting him in little plastic blue bath tub and gave him the freedom of the tub (though he had a preview when we traveled to Maine in July!). That opened a whole new world for him! (The pic is of him, just a few months old, happy after his bath-y!)

Every night we wash his hair...Adam hates having his hair rinsed, but has learned how to deal with it (it helps when I tell him just one more time..)...we read The Rainbow Fish (I bought a new bath book but he still picks that one) in which every single night without fail, he grins when I read the first line.

On occasion he does take a shower with Daddy...and he always hated the water on his face...but has gotten better with it and Daddy, of course, finds a way to make him laugh.

(He went to the Scriba public pool this past summer and liked it cautiously...but had second thoughts about getting his head wet, though he let Bethany hold him :)

A week and a half ago, I bought this foam letters that stick to the bathtub wall when they're wet to use the night Todd was in Indiana...and he LOVED them. Now, mommy has to hang them up with him and say each one.


But earlier this week, we learned HOW much he loves his bath. I said to him something to the effect of let's eat and then we'll do our bath. He immediately dropped what he was doing and ran to the shut bathroom door and started pushing on it with all his might making grunting noises like he was exerting great effort. He started going "EH EH EH". He was not pleased when he had to wait until we ate.

Adam did something similar the next night, teaching me that I cannot say that "b" word unless I mean it anymore than than the other "b" word (bottle, ba, ba-ba).