radish times

A quick update on the morn of Katya’s 10-month birthday:

-Katya is such a big girl now that she takes a bath in the real bathtub, without a kiddie tub. This morning she got so excited about a small plastic musical dolphin in a life preserver that she took a face first dive into the water to grab him. Of course, she did not think it was at all funny and we had to have a little break from the bath for her to recover her equanimity.

-When I was feeding Katya her juice a little later, we heard a loud SPLASH. Since I had not yet drained the water from Katya’s bath I had no trouble in deducing that one of the cats had fallen/jumped into the bath tub.* And specifically, it was pretty clear that it must have been either Pippin or BoBo as they have both been involved in unsafe water exploration episodes before: Pippin in a tub full of water and Clorox, BoBo in the toilet. And sure enough, there was BoBo, dripping wet and MORTIFIED. Needless to say, he hid until dry and then some.

-As I was just putting Katya down to nap, we were reading a book together. I was in a playful mommy mood and feeling a little guilty that perhaps we have given too much attention to books in Katya’s short life. So instead of turning the page, I started what I thought would be an amusing game by thipping the left page so that it jiggled back and forth. I hadn’t done this three times when Katya reached over and slammed the page down so that we could continue reading.

*The mode of expressing this thought is a result of the 2500 pages of Sherlock Holmes that I have just recently read.