Photos and Text by Corey Amaro:
This is French Husband's youngest cousin, Anais. Luckily, I am able to watch her once a week. She tries to say my name, Coco, but instead it comes out: Caca. The first time she said it, I thought she had to go to the bathroom. I thought to myself, this little baby is amazing she knows how to tell me that she has to go to the bathroom.
I later figured out that she pronounces my name Coco like Caca. I thought about changing my name to Lala.
Yesterday, I spent the day with Anais. In the evening I gave her a bath.
Initially
she was scared, the old claw-foot tub must have looked like a monster
to her. But after a few minutes she was splashing like an otter and
soaking me to the bone. I forgot, but was quickly reminded of the details of giving a baby a bath:
1. First and foremost, you need to have everything you need at arm's length because one can never take their eye off of a baby in a bathtub.
2. Babies pee when in water.
3.Then without fail, they drink the water!
4. Wear a raincoat when giving a baby a bath, you will get wet.
5. Taking a wet, wiggly, wanna-be a fish out of the water, is harder than catching a whale with a teacup!
6. Whoever designs baby's pajamas– I want to talk to you.
Why do you make them so complicated to put on? Why do you have to put snaps in the oddest places? Have you ever tried to put your pajama contraptions on a baby? Please remember: If it takes a rocket scientist to figure out how to put the baby's pajamas on, fore-go the design.
Anais' pajamas were a work out to put on. She braved it without wiggling or catching a cold. I barely could tell the arms from the leg slots. In the end her pajamas were on backwards.
All was well until dinnertime, when I forgot to put on her bib. Anais spit out her zucchini, with sweet corn, pureed with red beets, (I won't ask, "Who creates baby food?") and it splattered down the front of her pajamas, soaking through to her under tee-shirt.
She cried… "Caca, Caca, Caca…" (I said caca too, in the english version. Of course I did not say it out loud! As you know, babies repeat everything.) and I am certain she cried because she was thinking, Oh no, not this pajama thing again!
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