Thursday 26 November 2009

Who's afraid of the big bad bath?


Both boys shared their first bath tonight.

Ben graduated from baby bath (pictured) to big bath ages ago, and bursts with excitement every night when his bath time comes around.

This cocky post-graduate isn't afraid to kick, splash, jump and swim around, and took to the water tonight with his usual armoury of rubber bath toys - pirate, duck, sailor - you know the kind of thing.

But there was a not-so-cocky undergraduate lurking in the shadows tonight.

Almost 7 months old now, younger brother Ciaran was in his nursery and stripped ready for bed when Daddy had an idea.

Ciaran has always enjoyed his little bath - Mothercare, standard issue, white - and seemed perfectly at ease in it as well as now filling most of it with his seven-month-old bulk.

So it occurred to me - why not put him in the big bath with Ben and see how he gets on?

Mummy whisked Ciaran off his nappy mat and into the bathroom.

Ben looked shocked initially but this quickly turned to excitement, as he began splashing and splashing and splashing, demanding that we put Ciaran into the bath with him. Is he a mind-reader?

Ciaran permanently looks shocked at the moment, so it was hard to work out what he was thinking.

I gently lowered Ciaran into the bath feet first, before laying him on his back supported by my hands under hand and bottom.

Ciaran still looked shocked but Ben was loving it.

He'd never had a toy as big as this in the bath with him, and tried to share his little bath toys with his brother. Ciaran passed these offers up though, one after the other.

He prefered to lay there on his back in what's best described as the sun-burnt, English package holiday-maker pose. All that was missing was the lilo and the cocktail.

So, the joint bath venture was a big success. Ben didn't want Ciaran to go, and Ciaran didn't cry.

He certainly wasn't afraid of the big bad bath, that's for sure.

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