The Baby in the Tub
I was giving my two-year old daughter, Calli, a bath the other day, and she saw a baby in the tub! No, I didn’t hold up a mirror to her. No, she didn’t see her reflection in the water or the sliding shower door. She saw a baby under the faucet. Sorry I don’t know the technical name for the drain release thingy-but that’s where she saw the baby.
“Awww…baby!” Calli cried.
“Where’s the baby?” I asked, thinking she was playing some kind of peek-a-boo style game.
“Awww…baby,” she said. She pointed to the drain release switch thingy.
Aaawwww... see the baby?
“That’s a baby?” I asked.
“Awww… eye!” she said, pointing to a screw on the side.
Aaawww... an eye! (And a very cute finger!)
“Oh! Now I see!” I said. “That’s a very pretty eye!”
“Yeah! Eye!” she said, pointing to the other ‘eye’.
"Eye!"
“Cool!” I said, “Where’s the baby’s nose?”
“Nose!” Calli laughed and pointed to the ‘baby’s’ nose.
"Nose!"
I laughed and clapped my hands. “You’re right Calli, that’s a very cute baby!”
“Yep!” she said. Then she got a concerned look on her face.
“Hair?” Calli said.
“The baby’s hair?” I asked.
“Yeah. Baby hair. Gone?” She tilted her head in a way that asked ‘What happened?’
“Oh no,” I said, grabbing her washcloth. “Baby’s hair isn’t gone. Baby’s hair is right here!” I draped the washcloth over the drain release switch lever thing to look like hair. “See?”
A baby's not a baby without proper hair!
“Baby hair!” Calli laughed her sincere laugh that only a two year old can produce. “Aaaaawwwwww… baby!”
And then, apparently deciding her hair wasn’t good enough, Calli put the baby’s hair on her own head.
Like I need a caption on this one...
And now, every time Calli takes a bath, there’s more than one baby in the tub!
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