Bathtime Bust

Well, it's been almost 3 weeks since Zaylee arrived. Boy, does the time fly!! At the beginning, everyday seems to blend into the next and there never seems to be enough time for everything. But in 3 weeks time, we have fallen more in love with our little girl than we ever thought possible. We've begun to understand her various squeaks, sighs, and screams (and boy, does she have a scream!), and she's starting to understand our various attempts to satisfy them. Feeding her has transitioned from a strange, sometimes painful, struggle to an enjoyable bonding time between mommy and baby. Diaper changes are no longer the end of the world (She HATED being changed at the beginning). Toys are starting to be interesting and fun. And nights are slowly being filled with more time asleep and less time awake. (She slept for 7 hours one night!)
Bathtime, however, is another story. Today marked the momentous occasion of Zaylee's first real bath (or should I say first attempt at a real bath). What I thought would be a wonderful experience complete with lots of cute pictures turned out to be a total disaster. We got everything set up in our little bathroom, got out her new tub (with a cute "froggie" insert), opened her baby bath soap, and unfolded her little bath robe. We got her clothes off and wrapped her up in a towel and brought her to the tub. She was already a little fussy, and when we laid in her tub, she erupted...literally. She wasn't in the tub but two minutes when all her struggles and screams resulted in baby poo squirting out into the bath water. To make matters worse, I was already an emotional mess from seeing her so upset, and Robbie's mom was in the bathroom with us trying to catch the whole thing on video tape! Needless to say, once the poo arrived, bathtime attempt #1 was over. No cute pictures, no freshly bathed baby smell, no happy memories caught on video. Just a frazzled mother in tears and a baby who had to have poo water cleaned off of her. Why didn't anyone ever tell me that the first bath was not as easy as it looks in all the Johnson's commercials?
Moral of the story - don't believe everything you see on TV. Taking care of a baby takes lots of patience and lots of learning from (and laughing at) one's mistakes. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."