So I figured, hey, Zeke is a month old, maybe I should bathe him now. Yep, that’ s just how great a Mom I am. I don’t charge my kids extra for baths. I even use soap that smells good. (Burt’s Bees Baby wash is the current favorite, follow it up with Burt’s Bees Apricot Oil and oooh my, you have a good-smelling kid. The fragrance may only last for seconds before being completely annihilated by spit-up/poo/pee/spilled food/random-smears-that-you-don’t-want-to-identify, but it’s nice while it’s there.)
I digress. Except I can’t remember what I was digressing from.
Oh yes. Baths. So I don’t really like bath time. I mean, I like taking a nice hot soak in a bath BY MYSELF but I just don’t love the whole giving the kids a bath event. Probably because it occurs at the end of the day, I’m tired, the kids are getting tired & fussy, and I’m ready to sit down. I especially don’t like bath time if I know I have dinner dishes waiting for me. Usually Joe, that amazing man I married, takes bath duty while I clean up dinner. I like this arrangement. I can clean the kitchen to my satisfaction (which is pretty ridiculous, based on meticulously high standards ingrained in me by a mom who wiped her kitchen counters approximately 15 times an hour and would never let us leave dishes to dry in the drainboard and had a long list of items that weren’t allowed in the dishwasher. Love her. I do let dishes dry in the drainboard, daily, and I load just about anything that will fit into the dishwasher, gleefully, but I still wipe my kitchen counters, er.. obsessively.)
Anyway, this whole random post started with the photo that is of Zeke right after his first bath given by his Nana. YAY FOR grandmoms who will give baths! I don’t like giving baths when they’re so little and slippery. So I just say, OOoooh, Nana, don’t you think he needs a bath? And she gives him one in her big kitchen sink, I wait with towel, baby is clean, we are all happy. Except she doesn’t have any Burt’s Bees at her house. Hmm. I can fix that. I might be able to work out bath-avoidance altogether if I’m clever…
Don’t tell, okay?
I love it! It is a tiny bit scary giving them baths when they are so little and slippery!
My two year old now likes to take baths 2 or 3 times a day. Now if I can get my 8 year old to like them more!
Love it! I, too, tend to avoid baths for such slippery little bodies – but now the big kitchen sink is at my house, it gets used more often… maybe I should have thought that through before installing?
Have to admit, I used the “Granna, he really needs a bath” line just this week!
Can’t wait to see this fella!
@betsy – my 1 1/2 and 3 yo would probably live in the bath tub if I would let them. They’re easy to bathe now: fill up tub to appropriate depth, dump in bag of bath toys. Mara even soaps up hair, body etc pretty well by herself. Robbie doesn’t like getting all his curls rinsed. Usually when they bathe I run in and out of the bathroom – check in, go sweep kitchen, check in, go pull dinner out of oven, check in, go check email, etc…
@Rachel. Aaah, but it’s such a great line to use!!! I take full advantage, I admit. LOL. I guess I can be thankful for itty bitty kitchen w/ small sink if it gives me good excuse for getting Nana to bathe the baby.