You’d think by the time a woman was shepherding her sixth baby through early toddlerhood, she’d have no more tricks to learn.
But you’d be wrong.
It never fails to frustrate me that brand-new puller-uppers LOVE to play in the toilet. Keep them out of the toilet and they’ll be digging around in the bathroom trash.
The worst thing is, when one is busy in the bathroom, one doesn’t always have a lot of ability to keep a baby’s hands out of inappropriate places.
It won’t really do much good if I take my hands out of the toilet where I’m rinsing dirty diapers just to move her hand away from the ick. And if I’m washing my own hands and they’re all wet? That’s not really ideal either. I’m going to have to wash them again (along with the baby’s hands) anyway, but I don’t really want to get her outfit all wet…
It’s a conundrum. It has been a conundrum for the past five and a half years since Tirzah Mae started pulling up on things.
But I’ve finally discovered a hack so simple I can’t believe I didn’t think of it sooner.
Put her in the bathtub.
Of course.