Thursday, December 4, 2008

Bad Parenting 201

Apparently I could do an entire blog on bad parenting moments...

Lili had a bath tonight. She was refusing at first, which was odd because typically she loves any excuse to wash her cars. I enticed her with the bait of a big bubble bath in mama's soaker tub, which of course worked like a charm and she stayed in long after I had gotten out and she was uber pruney. So we did jim jams and stories and it wasn't until after she went to bed that I looked into the recently drained tub...


The thing is, we used to bath her every night as part of our bedtime routine. Of course, there was just one of her and two doting parents so... :) Once her eczema reared it's head we stopped bathing her every night, and once Jax came along we got REALLY lax about it. As in, when we give her a sniff and she stinks, we do some rough math ("did she get a bath last week? What day is it again?") to decide if we can't avoid it any longer. Scott and I both noticed how stinky she was today and, um, by the looks of the tub we MAY be getting a bit too lazy on this matter. It's not like it's the middle of summer and she just got back from a sand pit or anything. This is middle of winter dirt. On a girl. Yikes.

1 comment:

Sara said...

This is hilarious :) The day before we left DM, Bella took a bath in my mom's big tub and left a dirt ring like that too...so don't feel bad. Although, my mom LEFT the dirt ring there for about a month after we left because it reminded her of Bella :) She's a little sentimental.