In bath news......

The other morning Madison cuddled up to me in bed for almost an hour (it was my attempt at a lazy morning) and read me stories while I read a book. As I realized what time it was and I needed to get ready for the day, feed my kids, get them dressed, etc, I looked to her and said I needed to take a shower so she needed to get off my arm. She all of a sudden plugged her nose and said, "you smell, mommy." Really? I smell? It didn't bother you at any time in the last hour. Nice, huh? I'm sure I did, that is after all why I take showers daily, but come on, I didn't smell that bad when she wanted to cuddle. Sometimes she is such a brat.

This is what my kids do while I get ready in the morning. Most parents bathe their kids in a bathtub, mine play fully dressed with no water in the bathtub. Why, you ask? Well, every time Hunter takes a bath he has a bowel movement (yes, it's as gross as it sounds) so instead of bathing my kids in a bathtub and then having to move them over to the shower and then scrubbing out my tub I make life easy and shower them (thank goodness for the detachable shower head). Thus, they have resorted to using the bathtub as a play area. They make a slide out of the side of the tub, they put their bath toys in and sit and play just like a normal bath, and they also put the "candy" cane in the tub and dance.

Ryan's Aunt Pam bought this for Madison when they came to see me at the hospital after having Hunter (Madison conned them into getting it when they stopped for flowers at the store). It is probably my kids most favorite toy, it plays Mandy Moore's Candy and turns around. Madison has the directions figured out and she turns the same way it does when it sings (it's really cute). Almost every morning they play it for about 1/2 an hour while I get ready. They haven't gotten sick of it yet. It will be a sad day when the batteries finally die out, I don't know how it opens up! I'll figure something out....