The dverse prompt is a quadrille including giggles. The suggestion is to keep it light-hearted. Not my usual kind of thing, but here goes for the giggles.
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Baby bathtime,
slipping, splashing,
drowning ducks and making rainbow bubbles,
soapy hair, foamy hands
and lost feet,
oh, there they are!
Held high, now,
Pink, kicking and dripping,
wrapped, laughter-squealing,
warm towel-embraced,
while bath water giggles and gurgles in echo
down the plug hole.
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This bring back memories of bubble baths from my youth…
Bathing babies is always fun 🙂
You had me giggling, just the other night I bathed two of my grandsons, sounded so much like them…
Do they lose their feet too? One of mine always did.
One claimed a sore foot so could only put one in…..so we band-aided it and gave it maximum sympathy, he was most pleased with the attention and not having to get wet…lol
That’s a new one on me. The not wanting to get wet is classic 🙂
Yes we often go in extremes, one wont get out he’s having so much fun the other won’t get in…but they never like being called a smelly bum…lol
No, the first one in is usually entitled to say the other(s) stink. There’s no such thing as diplomacy with kids.
That is so true….lol…..they fill their bath with enough toys that there is barely room for them and play away until the water get cold or I get sick of waiting around for them….I’m talking a 2yr old and a 3yr old here….
And guess who has to fish out all the dozens of toys from the soapy water and rinse them off. And there’s always one toy that should never be put in water, or bits drop off it and go down the plug. The more I think about it, the more I really hated bathtime en masse.
Yes I know….one of the boys has a bad skin condition so he has to be washed in special soap which I discovered is akin to glue and takes extra effort to wash off….thankfully I don’t have this pleasure very often these days…
I’m in the breathing space, the few years between the youngest one doing her own bathtimes and the next batch coming along. Can’t say I’m champing at the bit.
Wow you have batches??? lol….I had six and now 8 gkids but thankfully a few of them live away from me….my daughter rang this morning to book me up for this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon…
Not yet I don’t! None of mine have produced yet and won’t for a while. You did one better than me with six. I gave up at five 🙂
Yeah well they kept turning up until I figured out how to stop it happening..
That’s what a Catholic education does for you 🙂
Yes guilty as charged.
I like how even the bath water giggles as it drains away.
That’s part of the fun 🙂
So sweet ‘not my usual kind of thing’ made me laugh. Thank goodness they made it out of the bath alive!
Ha! When I bathed four of them together it was quite…lively. The baby never looked totally at ease…
Oh look at that deep, luxurious tub! What wonderous memories they’ll have, Jane.
I hope they do! Thanks Misky 🙂
I love the bath water giggling and gurgling down the plughole ☺
Oh oh OH, I LOVE that bath water giggling down! How perfect! And your visual is delightful! I miss my giggling babies!
Thank you! I thought I missed bathtime too until I took off the rose-tinted spectacles and started to remember it properly…
“oh, there they are!” – how many times have I said that? Love your giggling bathwater.
Every single time with one of them—for years it seemed like 🙂
Love this and the way the bath water does too as it gurgles and giggles down the plughole. I do miss the joy of baby bath-times – maybe I should become an elderly mother…
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Anna :o]
Thanks Anna 🙂 Trouble is you have to take the rest of it too. Bathtimes can be fun, but I would not fancy being an elderly mother coping with spots and boy/girlfriends.
So true. And despite loving them to bits, there is a certain relief in handing the grand-kids back…
I think I could deal with that. Handing them over once they’re tired and fractious and want feeding, cleaning and putting to bed sounds good to me.
This is so fun! I wish they had bathtubs big enough for adults to do this
I’m sure they do! Depends how many adults you want to fit in 🙂
Yes, I suppose so, I would only need one big enough for two (:
No Roman orgy style then 🙂
Ha! For sure
Ah this brings tons of giggles. I remember when my best friend and I bathed her som, we ended up soaking wet. Haha such cuteness.
My mother used to wear a raincoat when she bathed mine 🙂
Hahaha. I haven’t thought of that. 🤣
She was an old hand at bathing babies 🙂
Thanks for jiggling my memory! Good read.
Thanks Bev 🙂 It rather jogged my memory too.
Sweet… I have those giggle memories of my three boys decades ago. What is it about kids and water. You did good 😉
Thank you! We have a public square here that has a thin film of water run over it to give a mirror effect for the surrounding buildings. It’s incredible how this water mirror has been taken over by hordes of kids in the summer to play in, from crawlers in nappies to adults with trouser legs rolled up!
Sounds like fun for the kiddies ~ It was a riot for my boys when they were younger ~
Kids love water. Maybe it reminds them of being in the womb?
like the image of water giggling and gurgling!!
Thank you 🙂
Lots of giggling.
Our girls used to spend hours playing in the tub–they brought their Barbies or other toys.
Yes, mine did too. The ‘bath’ toys ie dinosaurs, dolls, power rangers etc etc would sit along the side of the tub drying and waiting for the next battle.
Yes, we had that, too–well, not battles so much, but next adventure.
The toys were a pretty motley crew. They didn’t all get on.
I can understand. That happens.
Especially among bath toys 🙂
Oh yes. They can be quite rowdy.
Can’t help but giggle with this one Jane 🙂
Brings back memories 🙂
The fun times of bubble baths. Nicely done.
Thank you 🙂
You really nailed it with giggling bath water. We have 7 grandchildren, & bath time is quite the giggle-fest during sleep overs.
My first four children were six years between the oldest and youngest so they were bathed together when the baby was old enough to sit up on her own. That was hair raising…When I have grandchildren I can’t see me doing that again!
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A fun prompt and poem…
Thanks Morgen 🙂
What a lot of suds! Somehow, never found anything quite so foamy (or maybe I was trying to avoid having to clean the tub for hours afterwards). I don’t miss the bathtime so much as the bedtime reading – now they do it all by themselves….
The foam never lasted very long but it was always fun while it did. The bedtime reading I remember with mixed feelings. There were some stories, long and very boring that they loved and requested every single evening. Husband used to fall asleep reading. I used to abridge, but they always knew and I’d get hostile ‘Just read it’ nudges.
Ha! I remember telling my father (who was also falling asleep): ‘No, you missed that bit out…’
That’s exactly it! Our eldest remembers being annoyed at having to keep nudging.
Oh this is just adorable!!❤️
Thank you, Sanaa 🙂
That photo and your lovely poem bring back wonderful memories of my children and bathtime fun.
Thank you Michelle 🙂 It brought back memories for me too.
Looks like soooooo much fun 🙂
It was fun except I almost invariably received chatty phone calls, from people who don’t go away when asked, and was always terrified one of them would drown while I was arguing.
Let the phone ring, they’re too precious 🙂
You’re right 🙂
A lovely memory to bring to words…so much to enjoy here but the giggle and gurgle of water down the plug hole is wonderful
Thanks Paul. I wonder how many children have been terrified by that gurgle though? The monster that lived under the bath…
Good idea for a story.
It is, isn’t it? Why didn’t I think of that?
I think you did 😉