Kara and her new Bathtub

my child has always loved her bath...well she did ever since her cord stump fell off and we were able to "submerge" her in the water...the whole "sponge bath" was NOT for her but that's a different story!

Anyways...I had bought a convertible bath seat for her that we had used until recently! She splashes and kicks her little legs around in it like she is trying to win an Olympic medal! Due to her 26" in length the old bathtub got rather uncomfortable for her as she could hardly mover her legs around anymore and she is not yet ready for the "seat" option of the seat...

I was at WalMart and found this amazingly cute bathtub and we tried it out last night...can you see how much she is enjoying it? The pictures where she is actually smiling is when we made the duck quack (it quacks like crazy when you press the ducks beak)...

This was the only time she was happy yesterday as she decided to be a "very dramatic teether" (as our pediatrician called it) and is having screaming fits just about every hour on the hour and is pretty much whiny all day....I wonder if they make scuba diving suits for babies...I'd buy one and just keep her in the tub all day...

bless her little heart...

So it seems I have found the magic trigger to get my sweet girl to giggle... Or let's call it something that sounds like a *har ha* ...

She enjoys sitting on my belly while I am holding her by her hands and sing German children songs to her... Embarrassing as it is...my English song repertoire starts and ends with old McDonald had a farm...anyways she has this one song about a guy that stands in the forest totally still and quiet and how he has a red cape and there are a couple more phrases, which I will not get into. It ends up that this "guy" its a certain fruit that's growing there... *now talk about odd story* anyways whenever I sing this to her she just smiles at me and eventually I get those little giggles out... Bless her little heart... If you think about the worst American Idol auditions then you can somewhat imagine what MY voice sounds like... I am not tone deaf by any means but my voice is just anything but a singing one... really the child should be crying!

I must confess - I am yet to figure out whether she is laughing because she enjoys the entertainment or laughing because it is beyond awful to listen to and she just doesn't know whether to laugh or cry and simply made the decision to laugh...

Unfortunately I really have to now watch when I sit her on my belly as the position puts a lot of strain on her belly which usually results in about 4oz of throw up...I could do this all day long if I could as those smiles and giggles are better then anything I could have ever imagined!

my first inner grinning happy mom moment

wow...can you tell I've been way too consumed with other things? I guess once you dont post for a couple days its really hard to get back into the rhythm of things...

Anyways... I really do not want to talk about her constant puke issues...I am thinking way too much about it as it is and since I intended this blog mainly to use for me to look back on good things...I want to try to keep it positive!

I had my very first "wow is this happening?" mommy moment the other day. I was making saltdough ornaments with Kara's Hand and Foot print for our tree and also to send to my parents in Germany! Kara was in her jumperoo happily "playing" away. I kept turning around to see what she was doing and she was just looking at all her toys. I got busy with painting the ornaments and did not look around for a bit...as I turned around, cause I must admit that I realized it got rather "quiet" I found this:

My first instinct was to "get her out" but as I was grinning like a kid on christmas morning I just had to get the camera out!


There is a lot I laughed at already or smiled at things she, pretty much unintentially, did but this was my first inner grinning happy mom moment that you truly can only understand if you have aa child! It just melted my heart cause she was just so adorable and cute sleeping like that and yet I felt awful for not realizing sooner that she was tired to put her down for a nap!

Here's to many, many more moments like this as I can truly say...they make you feel really, really joyful!