Commando Baby Bathing

Since Comcast felt it necessary to work on the Internet this afternoon for about two hours, I was feeling a bit bored, and maybe just a bit insane.

I couldn't work on anything because I could not get online, and this made me very neurotic, so for whatever reason, I decided that it would be a good idea to try bathing my tiny trio.

Bregon, who normally would help me, was happily at his new classes at the Renzi center.

I at least had the forethought to remember to get the babies clean pajama's and a fresh towel.

But of course I managed to forget the diapers! I ran the water while I prepared everyone for their baths.

I started stripping everyone down to their diapers, trying to combat their rising interest in all of the fun things in the laundry room where they take their baths.

For some reason or another, Kaiden knew exactly what was in store for him, and was super excited about it.

He came right over and actually sat down in my lap so that I could put his ear plugs into his ears.

I took his little outfit off first, and set about working on Kian's clothes.

I looked up just in time to see Kaiden put both hands up on the side of the wash basin and try pulling himself up so that he could get in early.

Thankfully, I had yet to remove his socks, so his attempts at bathing early were foiled!

Vivienne and Kian both had handfuls of their cereal snacks still, and were standing around the laundry room watching the antics of their brother.

Of course, I did have to bathe Kai first. I was barely able to get him scrubbed down with soap before he was climbing over into the other side of the basin into the warm sudsy water.

Being Kai, he did not do this easily. Nope, he had to make sure that as soon as his feet touched the bottom of the basin, that his body curled up and hit the water to maximize the splash factor.

Water went everywhere. Even Vivienne and Kian got wet from all of Kai's splashing about, and they were all standing on the far side of the laundry room!

The splashing continued until I went to take Kai out of the tub. Then, he began to flail about and whine because he just did not want to get out of the tub.

I was soaked, and Kai was very very mad about not getting to splishy-splash anymore.

Everyone followed us into the living room to watch me get Kai dressed. Next was Vivie's turn.

She did NOT want to take her bath at all. She began to cry the moment I removed her cereal from her hand.

The entire time I tried to bathe her, she relied on me to keep her upright. This is not an easy way for a tiny person to get their bath, let me tell you!

Every time I had to get something such as a bit of shampoo, or a bit of conditioner, she would sway and lose her balance because apparently she just did not want to be there.

I did manage to get her clean somehow, but in the meantime, Kai had come back into the laundry room, and had commenced to try and use the soak bucket as a step stool to try and get back into the bath!

Kian had long since decided that playing in the laundry basket would be more fun, so he was busy re-arranging all of the clean clothes in piles behind me.

Thankfully, Husband came home just as Kaiden had managed to get his foot up on the side of the basin and was about to pull himself into the water with Vivienne.

It suddenly got a lot easier! Kian was ready for his bath by the time Vivie was whisked away to be dried and dressed.

He happily climbed up and in the tub and allowed me to suds him up and scrub him while he splashed merrily in the other side of the basin.

Kian even did not mind me rinsing the soap out of his hair or even the conditioner!

I was super glad to be done with this bath time! Then, it was time to cook their dinner. I am not sure what I was thinking, but for some reason, I popped a pizza in the oven. Thank goodness we have big bibs!