Aviva's first bath

Belly button!

The latest scoop about bathing newborns is that they can't have a bath until their cord stumpy thingy falls off. No big deal, because that thing is supposed to follow off in 1 to 2 weeks.

Whelp, not for our stubborn gal--her cord held on tight for 4 weeks! We were getting sort of worried, until I went to change her diaper on Monday and found that little stump in her clothes.

It was exciting to finally have it fall off, and to see that cute belly button underneath. Looks like we've got an inny!

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to bathe her Monday because we had plans in the evening, so we waited one more day for the bath. 

On Tuesday, we set up our new infant bath tub and infant soap (thank you Suzie and Mickey!) We also got out our froggy hooded towel (thank you Stephanie!) and some washcloths (thank you

Eww the stump...

Zhen!). 

We plunked Aviva into the bathtub and anticipated tears and anger, but thankfully we were just greeted to confused grunts. I can imagine every day is a new adventure for Aviva, and having water poured on top of her head probably seemed weird. Though she wasn't angry, she was certainly cold, so we bathed her as quickly as possible. 

About one minute into our bathing session, little miss Aviva decided to let out a big poop. Luckily, our fancy bathtub made it easy to simply drain the poop into the sink and start with fresh water! The most exciting part was probably washing her hair, which was starting to get a bit greasy. 

After the bath ended, we got to wrap our munchkin in a big soft froggy towel. Once she got warm she was pretty satisfied with being clean. And, we discovered that her hair is super curly when washed. 

Froggy towel

Can almost see those curls...