The girl cannot leave the house without turning on the outside tap as she passes it, full blast, getting soaked and then needing a change of clothes, shoes etc. She will play in the garden and drain the water-butts dry, which really annoys her Dad. She will constantly try to hook the hose up and get wet, she will pour water down the slide to make it a ‘waterside’. She will do all of this whether its 2 degrees or 25 degrees outside.
She will lie down in the shower and pretend she is going swimming and we will have to actually turn the shower pump off and tell her we have ran out of water to get her out. She will spend her pocket money on colorful bath bombs (you know the ones that leave a lovely blue or green line around the bath). She will splash about in the bath like she’s in a swimming pool and leave the bathroom at least 3 inches deep in blue water when she’s finished. Even when she’s down to her last centimetre of cold bath water we will still need to either bribe her or drag her out.
The little one will follow his sister’s lead. He will stand at the bath and try to get his leg over, he would literally jump in fully clothed if it was possible for him to jump that high. He will scream and kick and cry his eyes out when he has to get out of the bath. He loves to snuggle up with Dad in the shower and just let the water wash over him, it’s the only time I see him calm when he’s attached to someone who isn’t me.
The first born will declare every night is a ‘free night’, this means he doesn’t need to wash. He has developed an aversion to water and anything that means he might get his face wet. He will avoid the bath at all cost and if we do somehow manage to successfully bribe him into the shower it’s literally turned off 3 seconds after he turned it on, when he then declares very loudly that he’s “done!”. The water no longer washes him, it rolls of the layers of dirt and now we are in lock down the reason for washing (this usually being that he doesn’t want to be the smelly one at school) no longer applies.