Swimmers

I have been thinking and reflecting on the time when Eliana was a baby, and I have realized that she cried A LOT.  Eliana cried when she rode in the car in her carseat.  She cried in the stroller.  She cried when you put her in her crib.  She cried in the Bumbo seat.  She cried during bathtime.  As long as you were holding her, she was happy and smiling.  She was a first baby, so we had lots of time to hold her.  But there were definitely a lot of things that made her cry.  I figured every baby was like that.  Bathtime was so bad that Eliana would go up to two weeks without taking a bath.  I dreaded bathtime because Eliana would scream so much.  Things have changed a lot and now Eliana really likes the bath.  She pretends she is a mermaid and lays in the water with her hair floating all around her.  Then William came along.  I was scared of the bathtime screaming again, but it never happened.  He loved the bath right from the start.  When he gets in the water, he laughs and kick, kick, kicks his legs.  Because of this discovery, bathtime has become a much more regular thing around our house.  (That's probably a good thing, right? Haha)  The kids will spend up to 45 minutes in the tub just playing.  So much splashing is going on that the floor usually gets a good mopping after it is done.  This has become one of my favorite evening activities.  Also, I just love the way clean kids smell :)

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Squeaky clean and ready for snuggles