Easter poo

This is the green shampoo that I bought at the dollar store...and since we have been putting out the Easter decorations...this shampoo has been dubbed the "Easter poo"

 This is Lila....who loves her baths...and has developed a fondness to the above Easter poo

 She washed my hair many...many...times with the Easter poo...(thank goodness it was a dollar and not the good Aveda!) She was so funny because she would pour it in her hand..rub them together..and say I'm really into it. I am very laid back, but we all have our things that just make us crazy...the fingernails on the chalk board kind of crazy...and my thing is wrinkled hands from the bath. After they are wrinkled I hate to touch anything...and I am ready to get out! I was in the bath so long with Lila and that Easter poo that my hands were prune like....I told her this was true love.

 But eventually we got out...and I wrapped her up. After her bath she likes to be wrapped like a burrito...and will run around saying she is the (insert color) burrito...tonight she was the brown burrito...but truth truth be know she likes to be the pink burrito best!

I tried!

I do very little by myself at this stage in my life. Seriously, I may be in the bathroom by myself...maybe if I am lucky...once a week. Riggs was gone... Mom was here and the other littles were all busy doing one thing or another. I walked by mom...and mouthed...not whispered mouthed...that I was going to sneak up and take a bath. A few minutes later she looked around and the kids were gone...and when she came upstairs to find them...this is what she found.

 What's a moma to do...when those sweet faces want to climb in the warm bubbles with Moma...they won't want to forever.....I tried to take a bath by myself....maybe next time! ;)

who you pick?

Lila loves her baths...and of late who ever she bathes with..whether it be me, SK or the brothers..gets to play who you pick with her. She is quite creative at making up games. Although it is a very random game she loves it! It starts with getting all the little characters in the bath and sitting them up in a line on the side of the tub.

 After they are in a line Lila says..who you pick? and you pick a character and put them on the other side. She always picks the pink my little pony first...I always go for Minnie Mouse. This picking goes back and Fourth until each character in a new line on the other side of the tub. At

 this time each one is doused with foam soap for a bath. They are then dipped one by one in the tub and rinsed off and put back on the original side of the tub ...where who you pick begins all over again.

 There is one disclaimer to this game that Lila is sure to insist on...one of the Cinderella characters has a missing foot compliments of Jack. She is held by Bat Man in the corner of the tub and is not picked because she has a boo boo but is always present and watches the game. I am proud to say I take a bath in a bathroom where, with or without all your parts ,princesses are loved by heroes! ;) At 2 1/2 Lila has a very set way that she does things and already shows such passion for the things she believes in....and today it is that not everyone is perfect...every one of us gets chewed on and sometimes so much that we loose our footing...and can't stand alone...but with a little help from some one stronger...some one who can help hold us up...we can still play.

Bath Time with Moma

Lila Ray and I were having the best time in the bath tonight! We giggled and sang...had a tea party. Her soft, warm, wet baby skin on mine...so sweet. The bath is true one on one I have found with all my children...four white walls in the comfort of warm, sudsy water...and it's something you can't do for very long so enjoy the innocent sweetness while you can. Sarah Kate had grabbed my camera and took these pictures of Lila and me...my instict was to be fussy with her...put my camera down..it's not a toy...get it away from the bathroom and the water...but I trusted her to take a few and I am glad I did...they are sweet memories I want to remember but, of course, would never have considered inviting a camera to take a photo of wet, no make up me after a long day of running around crazy. Not my best photos but the memories are sweet enough to get me through it...thanks kkate for capturing the moment.