Today I found out that my child is not the prodigy that I thought she was. Up until today, I just laughed when I heard moms talk about their babies pooping while in the bathtub. They would shake their heads as they remembered specific times when they were faced with the struggle of getting a wet, wriggly, poo-covered baby out of the tub long enough to drain and refill.
I thought, "My baby is almost 4 months old and she's never pooped in the tub! She must be a genius because she knows that the tub is not the place for that. It'll be so easy to potty-train - let's start next month!"
Boy, was I wrong...
When I shower, I put Brylie in her little blue tub in the bathtub with me. She loves it. Today, I was just showering away when I heard a loud toot. I looked down, and sure enough, there were bubbles and everything. I looked proudly at my daughter and said exactly what you could expect her daddy to say to her in moments like these... "Good one!"
But what came next was not so good. Before I knew it, she was sitting in a 3 gallon tub of poop.
My first reaction was to drain her tub and refill it - but then I thought, "I'll just get it all over me." Plus, she was still working on it, so I didn't want to jump the gun and have to start the whole process over again.
Once I got out of the shower, I turned around to view the final damage - it was not pretty. So, I drained her tub, refilled it, pulled her out (in the process of all this) and held her under the faucet so that I could put a semi-clean baby back in her tub. It worked, but as the tub was draining, I noticed the water wasn't going down the drain.
"NO!!! Standing water is bad enough but poo-filled standing water!"
Just a shampoo label stuck over the drain....whew!
Later on, she rolled over for the first time.
Maybe she is a prodigy.
