Lately...

I'll start out with a really funny story from bathtime the other night. Whenever I bathe them it's always tricky to get them out of the bathtub. What I usually do is lay their towels on the bathroom floor and when it's time to get out, I lift one out, wrap him up and place him farther away on the bathroom floor. Then I lift the other one out, wrap him up and lay him on the floor to put his diaper on. I don't want to leave one kid in the bathtub that I'm not watching carefully just because I need to diaper the first one out, so I usually wait until they're both out before putting on any diapers.

Anyways, a couple nights ago, I took Jackson out of the tub first and put him into his towel and sat him down. Then I went to reach for Cullen, but Jackson suddenly sprang up, flung off his towel and made a break for it. I called his name and peeked out the bathroom and saw him running into the living room laughing. I just rolled my eyes, laughed and then turned back to Cullen. But he had the strangest look on his face, like he was about to cry but was too confused and stunned to actually start crying. Then he started gagging himself and spitting. I could tell he wasn't actually choking, just sputtering, but I still had no idea what was going on. Then I spotted soap bits and residue on one of his hands and around his mouth. "Oh no, he must have eaten soap!" Sure enough the soap was missing from the little dish in the bathtub. Well, I just shrugged and figured that he must have just licked it before dropping it into the water. I lifted him out and took him to get a cup of milk to get the taste out of his mouth. I knew that soap is harmless for the most part and he seemed to be ok a few minutes later- at least he had stopped making disgusted faces.

Later, I went back in to clean up the toys from the bathtub and found the missing bar of soap- with a big, huge bite taken out of it!! No wonder he was so upset, he'd gotten a mouthful! (Don't worry, he didn't swallow it, I found the chunk in the bathtub too). Well, they say that if you learn a lesson the hard way, you only have to learn it once. Poor kid! I doubt Cullen will be touching a bar of soap ever again!



Last week, they figured out how to climb onto the chairs and then from a chair onto the table. Uh oh! I'm really careful now to leave the chairs all pushed in completely.