This weeks The Gallery theme chosen by Tara at Sticky Fingers is Playtime.
I think everyone, whatever their age, enjoys playtime. Since having Burton it has been great playing with toys again,making silly faces, blowing raspberries, rolling around on the floor and just generally being a kid again! Such great fun and happy moments with lots of laughter and learning.
Burton’s favourite playtime though is at bath time. To start with he did not like the water at all and screamed!
However, since he was a few weeks old we have given him a bath almost every night as part of his bedtime routine. After a few more weeks we got him used to having water splashed on his face and lying in the water, to give him confidence and to not fear water.
Well it soon became clear that he loved bath time and water and some times it has been hard to get him out of the bath!! Sometimes I think Daddy and I have got more wet than he has from all the splashing and kicking….and the floor…..the window blinds…..and the baby changing unit!!
This has helped with us introducing him to swimming at the local pool he loves it! He splashes about, gets dunked and sits on edge of the pool and pushes himself into the water! We have been taking him since he was 6months old and other swimmers have marvelled at how confident he is in the water.
Now at bath time we have to fill it so full of toys and the baby product bottles, I am surprised Burton has any room to enjoy the bubbles! He sits up one minute, lies on his front splashing furiously the next and more recently has started trying to stand up!! The whole time laughing and smiling.
Here are a couple of recent bath time play time photos
He loves either the taps or shower being run so he can play with the flowing water!
Playtime is the best time:fact!
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Aaaahhhh! So cute! Bathtime was a great idea for playtime prompt!!
Maggy
I am loving the smiles in the last couple of images – just wonderful
Ah, so cute and perfect for the prompt. Baby V was the same, not so sure at first but now I think bathtime is her favourite time of the day,as soon as we mention it she starts tugging at her clothes to get undressed! x
Lovely smiles!
My two are the same, it’s often a effort to make them get out of the bath!
Oh that looks like so much fun 🙂 We love bathtime 🙂
Gorgeous. I also had a water baby till he hit four! Now getting him into the bath equates a military operation. But once he’s in its all hands on deck and I don’t see him for ages. Beautiful pictures.
How cute!!! Great photos. He is having so much fun obviously.
Great pictures – bathtime is a great chance for some splashing fun. I’d love you to come and link up with the Play Academy too if you’d like to share your play idea. 🙂
aaww 😀
bathtime is sooooooooo much fun. great photos 🙂
Lovely pictures, he is so cute. Bathtime has also been our favourite time and now we love going swimming 😉
What fun! All 4 of mine used to bath together and it was a very special time! I love that smile in the last photo, gorgeous!
Interesting that he likes the running water. All of my three absolutely adore the bath, but hate the water running. Weird.
hehe….he’s having great fun!
My little one is exactly the same – loves splashing in the water. Our floor gets a good wash everytime!
I have an almost identical photograph to the one at the top. A brand new Noah screaming his lungs out during his fisrt bath. Like Burton, we can’t get him out of the bath these days. His new trick is to see how high his wee will hit the tiles *sigh*
Awwwwww… he does look so happy! Mine also love splashing in water (a lot!) and the shower!
Wow, that’s a lot of bath toys! And one very happy little boy, how adorable!