Baby Loves...Bathtime

The little angel went through a period during her ear infection when she would scream as though the hounds of hell were nipping her toes whenever she saw the bathtub.  We thought perhaps she was ruined for life, would have to go directly to stand-alone showers by the age of two, never able to partake in a reality show featuring a jacuzzi.  However, the end of the bubble gum-medicine parade coincided last night with the return of her love for the bathtub, if not the feeling of warm water being poured directly on her head.

As I made "ribbit, ribbit" sounds and lambasted her with water from her new bacteria-laden friend, the squirty bath frog, I wondered what she thinks when she is in the bath.  I can't wait for her to be able to talk.  Does she wonder why she's subjected to it a few times a week?  Is she cold?  Does she like watching the rivulets run between her fat little toes?  Do baths feel good to her?  How about the towel?  Is it too scratchy?  Fun?  Does she realize her hair is wet or dry, or that she even has hair?  What do babies think about when they are bathing? Usually adults stew on their problems.  She doesn't have any Kafka-esque scenarios to ponder.  WHAT??