Isaacs First Shower

Imagine this... I am traveling at over 70 miles an hour as I write this! An amazing experience to write while watching trees and snow zoom by!

This morning, we were up north and the girls went to church, which left dad and I at home with Isaac. We were watching Sunday Morning on CBS which is a great program, and it is very interesting that both of my dads like it. I especially like the moment of silence where they show a picture of a beautiful place and it is like a small TV meditation. Isaac spent a bit of time with the small wind up Choo-Choo. It has been around long before me, and it is a an elaboratively made music box, that has a small three car train that circles around a shack and under a bridge as the inner music box rings out the tune I've Been Working on the Railroad. Both kids could watch it go round and round for all time. I found it a good moment for me to get our stuff organized. Every two minutes or so I would have to walk over the the train shack and wind it up so he could watch it go around again, which was a nice punctuation for my activities.

After a while, I thought it would be nice to have and activity that he would be crazy about, and an easy one is to put him in the bath. So we got the water running, got a few cups, and got him in. He was having a great time pouring and Phoebe the dog even visited to sniff what was going on. I know it was risky to have him in the bath early in the morning, because he is known to have a movement in the morning. Well it wasn't too long before he did.

I'll spare you the details, but the upshot is that he got the opportunity for his first shower. He never wants to take a shower, buy after an accident in the bathtub it really is the best way. I got the hand held shower head and put it to low pressure, and asked him if he wanted to get his hands wet first. He did, and stuck them right out into the lazy streams of water. Next we got his toes and feet, and in seconds he was all the way in. When it was time to get out, after many minutes, he sat down and protested. Great!