A not so elegant first bath

Max's first bath was a planned and celebrated affair.  My mother, Gus and I all piled into the bathroom with the camera ready to video tape Max's reaction to his first experience with water.  We captured every coo with the camera and commented on every grunt and kick.

Max's first bath

Darwyn's first bath was not such an elegant event.  Gus and I have endeavour to put Darwyn on air time regularly, which involves placing her in her bouncy chair with a mat underneath her in case she pees and a bare bum.  Darwyn loves her air time and was happily enjoying it next to our Au pair Heather, while Heather ate her lunch on the couch.

Heather: Oh oh.....Darwyn just went to the bathroom.

Greta: That's ok.  We set it up so she can pee on it without a problem.

Heather: Ummm....its not pee.

Darwyn had covered herself, the mat and a large amount of the chair with copious quantities of poo.  Given that she had yet to actually ever poo (besides her first mecconium) this was quite a notable event.  Thus, our first insight into Darwyn's character: when she does a job, she does it thoroughly.  She looked quite satisfied with herself.  Gus and I scrambled to try to clean her up with rags, but the whole thing proved rather impossible.  Every time you got one part clean she would dip it back into some other part that was still covered in poo.  And so we set out on an emergency first bath.  The audience consisted of just me and Gus.  Nobody video taped it...although I'm sure it would have been amusing to watch us try to extricate Darwyn from her self imposed disaster.

Needless to say, Darwyn loved her bath and was similarly thrilled with the second bath, which was a calmer event and involved more picture taking (see below).  I think that the whole event has introduced Gus and I to what it is like to parent the second....disaster prevention parenting.   Good thing we conveniently forgot the video camera!

Darwyn looks at the Camera during her second bath

Darwyn's second bath....also, I'm not covering my crotch with my hand.  I'm stroking Darwyn's hair.