Bathtime and Bugs.

When we first brought Autumn home we could only give her sponge baths because her umbilical cord had to fall off. This lasted about two weeks, and we didnt bathe her very often because she HATED it. Im assuming it was probably just because she was cold. But she screamed for her first bath in the hospital too.

Now that her stumpy has fallen off and shes getting bigger, she takes baths in her own bathtub. (and sometimes I even put her in the big bathtub with me which she LOVES) We started using bathtime as part of her night time routine. She loooooooves it. Shes definitely going to be a bath-taking girl like her mom!

I cant wait until she can sit up on her own and splash and play. I forsee LOTS of bathtub toys in our future.

After her bath she gets all snuggly in her towel and we do lotion, diaper, jammies, brush hair, nurse and *attempt* to go to sleep. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt. Buts its my attempt to get her into some sort of routine that will eventually lead to a schedule. (Im using the word schedule EXTREMELY loosely right now because she is 6 weeks and well- there is nothing scheduled about our days so far.

Now that she has gotten a little older she is starting to get interested in new *stuff*. So before our bath the other night I remembered this really cool pelican scoop that Auntie Ryann had given us for the baby shower. So I pulled it out of hiding and showed it to a kicking squirming baby.

and she froze.

what is THAT?

It was rather humorous and she stared at it for about 5 minutes. I use it in her bath to pour warm water over her and she smiles at it the whole time.



Speaking of STUFF. Autumn has these bugs. There are three of them, a ladybug (her favorite), a butterfly, and a bee. They dangle so you can attach them to the carseat or mobile or wherever, and they also make jingle noises. They have those colors babies love and she will i swear stare at these things for a couple hours straight. I hung them from her swing mobile and now she recognizes them and smiles when I put her in her swing. Sometimes she "talks" to them and silent laughs. its too cute.

one last thing before I wrap this up. The dog puppet. Ill have to get a better video but daddy walked in right at the end so this is all I got. She was kicking her feet quite a bit and silent laughing before I grabbed the video. I wish I would have caught more of the smiling.

It does get slightly tiring trying to come up with entertainment ideas for her, because 5 minutes into an activity she looks at me like "what else?" and you can only do so much entertaining with a hand puppet and a dangle bug. Guess we will have to stock up on more toys to keep her busy!!