Stumble It!
Last night after I could take no more of the screaming (my god, how can something SO small make SO much noise?) I decided to run the baby's bath a little early and let him play in the tub.
I sat on the edge of the tub with him on my left hip, leaned over, and turned the water on. I waited till it warmed up, plugged the drain, and poured in some organic baby bubble bath that smells like coconuts and lavender and bunnies and rainbows and all that hippie stuff.
"Can I take a bath too?!!?"
"No, Charlotte, you already took a shower earlier today, remember? It's getting cold out and too much water will make your skin itchy and dry. I'm just going to bathe Sawyer tonight and tomorrow you both can take a bath, ok?"
I'd like to say she accepted this with a simple "okay, Momma," but she did not. There was huffing and puffing, but she eventually acquiesced. Mostly because I ignored her completely.
I walked into the baby's room, placed him on the changing table and began to undress him, singing my stupid "Heiney Boy" song that he loves so much.
Who's my heniey boy, heiney boy, stinky silly heiney boy?
Yeah, so I should probably stop that before he goes to high school, right?
"Momma, I know I can't take a bath, but I'm just gonna test the water to make sure it's warm enough for baby Sawyer," she yells from the bathroom.
"Okay, be careful," I tell her. She always reaches her arm out and sticks her hand under the running water before her bath, something we taught her to make sure the water wasn't too hot before getting in the tub.
I finish undressing the baby and carry his long, skinny body to the bathroom. I open the door and Charlotte is sitting naked in the tub and says "Yep, it's warm enough."
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Testing the waters
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I love Charlotte.
The end.
Well, she didn't say HOW she was going to test the water.
:)
That'll learn ya. And really you already knew. You said she was going to be a politician.
I think you need to hang on to the heiney boy song. We don't have the threat of beatings in our toolbox any more, so you need to be able to pull out "behave or I'll come into your classroom singing 'heiney boy'"
Lil' Pieice of advice for you before this motherhood thing goes any further with you....
"Be VERY Specific with your instructions to your children"
It's kind of like a game of Chess...you have to think of every POSSIBLE way they could misconstrue your words and plan your directive accordingly. Sometimes the verbal delivery takes five entire minutes- but it's worth it in the long run. You get to sit down a lot while you're trying to run all the possibilities thru your mind. If you try and stand up while doing it, you tend to fall over a lot.
;-)
Hope this helped.
Oh, how I love Charlotte. She is hilarious, and going to be one amazing, brilliant woman! You're teaching her well. :)
She was being a great big sister - I would have done the same thing.
Best laugh I've had in weeks!!!
hahahahaha!!! clever kid!!
Oh please don't tell me that was a surprise to you!
Well, she REALLY wanted to take a bath.
Lol, she's hilarious. My 4-year-old probably would have done the same thing. They're very literal creatures, aren't they?
That is pure little kid AWESOMENESS!
Smart girl!
Sneaky, sneaky! And really funny!
Hahahahaha!!!! Did you let her stay?
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