Bath Time Antics

Nicole really likes bath time. Our normal routine is to get her a fresh diaper, head to the bathroom and let the tub fill while we strip her down. She’ll always help out with the undressing part (lifting her legs out of her pants, pulling the shirt off from over her head, etc.) if it helps get her in the water faster. Once she’s in the tub she’ll hold her hand under the faucet to feel the water pounding down and splash around with her toys and water books.

Two things have evolved lately-
1) sitting in the tub she’ll now bend over and put her nose in the water. She used to suck water up which lead to coughing spells, but now she just dunks her face in lightly and comes up quite proud of herself.

2) Last night I closed the gate to the stairs and let her roam while I walked to her room to get the diaper. When I came back to the bathroom, a whole 30 seconds later, she was gone! That little bugger somehow climbed into the bathtub by herself! I pulled her out and watched as she tried again – raising up on her tip toes and swinging her left knee well over waist-level and onto the tub ledge while pushing up with her arms. Guess we won’t be leaving her to her own demise any more. Good thing I hadn’t started the water yet!