Sometimes baths make you feel like a kid again.

When it comes to bath time, it's definitely a happy time in our house. As soon as 6:45/7:00 rolls around, its that time. And all we need to say to E is "Bath?"

And her response... "Baaaa--ths"

And then she runs to the stairs and looks at us....are you coming or what?

Of course we follow. We have the same routine every night. This is part of our routine, and we cherish this time of the night. We undress her. Sometimes we let her walk around with nothing on... and regret it just moments after when we realize she trickled on the floor. Yet its the cutest thing in the world to watch her face as she notices what she had just done. She looks down in shock. Confused.


So we scoop her up and place her in the bubble bath tub full of all sorts of water creatures. You name them, they're there. Walrus. Dolphin. Fish. Octopus.... 

Sometimes we will line them on the edge. And one by one she knocks them down.
Then insists that we line them up again.
And knocks them down.
Repeat on overdrive.

When she was a baby, we did bath time every couple of days. In her pink little tub that had a special sling contraption that cuddled her like a cocoon.

At around 3-4 months we transitioned to bath time every night, and continued this routine up to this day with her missing a bath probably 7-10 times total since then.  And that mainly being due to the fact that we were away from home, at my parents house, on vacation, or just out of our element.

Elliana barely every wants to get out of the tub. She splishes and splashes in there like she's in the ocean. She's the dolphin in a great big giant sea of water.

She will sometimes even lay down and pretend "swim" and then dip half her face under, get some water, then spit it out.

Of course laughing hysterically right after.

I'm so glad that baths have been so positive in our daily routines. A happy time. A time to unwind, relax, and feel free. And sometimes....

I feel like a little kid again, reliving my own childhood bath memories. 

And that?
Makes it that much more fun.


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