Mama Hack: The Baby with the Bathwater

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I think BabyHacks may have been a fish in a former life. That’s not true. If she is reincarnated, I’m pretty sure she was our cat Iago, but cats don’t like water, and that means that my analogy is all washed up. Oh, no. A pun within an analogy. Someone stop me.

Ahem. I think that BabyHacks may have been a fish in a former life, because she absolutely loves the water. Even before she could sit up on her own, she loved to go in the tub with PapaHacks or me and just feel the warm water on her little tushie and legs.

Now that she’s bigger, she shows her appreciation in a very enthusiastic way. She splashes.

I know it’s a rite of passage for a baby to splash in the tub, but BabyHacks really does take it to extremes. And, being the doting mama that I am, I just laugh and encourage her to do it some more. ‘Cause I’m crazy like that.

Crazy like a fox.

I’ve actually learned how to use this bath time exuberance to my advantage. We have a small bathroom, and while the little one is having a blast splashing water all over the floor, I take the opportunity to grab a rag and do a little cleaning. After all, the floor’s already wet, I was already on my knees, and the baby’s entertained.

I use the bathwater to get the floor clean and just wring and rinse the rag into the sink.

Obviously, you have to be safe about this and not leave the little one unattended while you go scrub every nook and cranny; and you need to make sure you have a rug or have dried the floor fairly well so no one slips when bath time is over.

Still, it’s one heck of a way to kill two birds with one stone, and the end result is a clean kid and a clean floor.

Mama Hack: n. A tip or technique that reduces the chaos in a mama’s life and makes it easier to manage or more convenient. Because no one looks back and says, “I just relaxed a lot while my kids were little.”)