Charles seems to have recovered his love of water. He was off driving in my office while I picked up a bit around the kitchen. He started crying, which meant that he had gotten stuck in the game somehow. I’ve made it a policy to delay on fixing that kind of thing because
Anyway, this time Charles was unable to resolve his problem so he came running out to see Dad and announce “bath!”. Yes, Charles wanted another bath even though he had one last night. One’s children can never be too clean, especially boys, so off we went. I kept thinking that I must have misheard him, but he waited patiently while I got the water warmed up to 250°C (the minimum safe temperature for little poopers) and then hopped right in.
He let me wash him and then played for a while in the water with his airplane (which is a submarine in the bathtub). After a while he announced that he was done. What’s interesting to me is that I’ve started having Charles flip the drain before he gets out, because that’s easier for me. When I first started doing that with Corwin, he refused to do it and I ended up leaving him in the tub for about 30 minutes before he finally broke and opened the drain. Charles, in contrast, happily did it the first time and has never objected. If only he were as cooperative about the potty!