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An After-Bathtime Routine

I can't remember if I had written about this before, so I thought I'd write about it again tonight. After we give the kids a bath, we wrap them up really tight in a hoodie towel and send them to the playroom to sit on a bean bag. Usually they will just curl up all relaxed and calm as the towel soaks up all the water left on their little bodies. It's one of my favorite things to see. EVER. Tonight they looked so adorable and sweet I had Adam snap a picture with his iPhone. By the time I would have grabbed my camera, the kids would have been running around in their birthday suits! Joselyn started making funny faces when the phone came out.

And you bet I love that elephant towel!!! My favorite.

Bathtime Cuties

Now that Landen has sitting up perfected, we let him sit up in the bathtub for the first time yesterday. It was a whole new world of fun for Landen and he LOVED it. Joselyn got quite excited too and was showing him all sorts of toys to play with and teaching him how to splash. There were all sorts of giggles going on. I got so many cute pictures of the two of them, I couldn't post them all individually on my blog. So after these few favorites, watch my little slideshow of all the fun. You won't wanna miss it.

 

Gotta love babies all lathered up in soap. I love doing Joselyn's hair into a mohawk. It's starting to get a little too long for it, but Joselyn always comments on how pretty it is. She doesn't even have to look in the mirror. She just knows.



Landen was having fun chewing on the foam numbers... it was so funny though cause he would stick a number in his mouth and chew on it then play with other toys with his two free hands. So a little number was just hanging from his mouth the whole time. Adam and I were getting laughs over it.

 

Joselyn was cracking me up as she brushed her teeth. She started making the silliest faces in the mirror. Must have gotten that from Adam? Seems like an Adam thing to do. She ahs always loved to sit at the edge of the sink, turn the water on and let the water run over her feet. I personally don't think there is a cuter sight than seeing a little baby wearing a hooded towl (a lady bug one at that) brushing her teeth and making silly faces in the mirror.

Joselyn is trying to decide on new hair-do...

Here's the first one-

Here's the second-

Here's the third-

So, what do you think?

Joselyn's first bubble bath

Ever since Joselyn's bad experience in the bath tub, bath time hasn't been the same. Although she will actually take bath now and SOMETIMES play in the water, she is very cautious and will immediately want to get out if water gets in her eyes or what not. So I went on a mission to make bath time fun again for Jos.

On Monday I took a little trip to Babies R Us and picked up a few fun things:

(water bugs you can catch with included net)

I also picked up some foam letters/numbers from Target and a faucet cover/bubble bath dispenser so she wouldn't accidentally hit her head on the faucet.

Well, Joselyn was a little bit cautious at first. She LOVES bubbles, but taking a bath in them seemed a little iffy. She wouldn't sit down in them for about 5 minutes until we finally sat her down ourselves and started showing her her new bath toys. She was immediately hooked.

Bathphobia

Joselyn has loved her bath time since the day she was born. She splashes around and plays and it was always the one part of the day we KNEW we would see her happy. And Adam and I looked forward to it... to seeing her smile and be happy.

A few days ago, something happened that changed all that. She somehow slipped while seated in the bath landing face-first in the water. She definitely breathed some water in and it scared her to death. We immediately pulled her out as she choked on the water then spit a bunch of it out. I must say that Adam and I were just about as scared as she was if not more. I immediately remembered hearing about secondary drowning... how a little boy 'drowned' from getting water in his lungs after playing in the pool... and I was a little frantic. We decided to just keep a good eye on her. The next morning was when we captured this photo of her, which I posted a few days ago.

Drowsiness is one of the signs of secondary drowning so it was just yet another reason for us to be concerned about her odd behavior of falling asleep on the couch. Thankfully, she has been just fine and secondary drowning is now a fear of yesterday.

-BUT-

Joselyn has since then been scared of her bath. I mean the scream-on-top-of-her-lungs-frozen-solid kind of fear. We have literally been giving her 30 second baths the past few days, and they have not been the fun routine we had always looked forward to. So we brainstormed and asked a few people, and decided to do something different.

Adam put his swimming trunks on and semi- got in the tub with her tonight. They had so much fun playing that I think she totally forgot about her fear of the water. It worked like a charm. I think we can finally return to our fun bath time routine!! Let's just cross our fingers that she really IS over her fear of the bath water!