Ingenuity

Jude is now eighteen months old and he loves to take baths. He's quite the little fish, which is unfortunate for him, because the tubes in his ears don't allow him to fully partake of the water experience.

The other day I put Joel in the tub and Jude was desperate to join him. I went to fetch Jude's ear plugs, got distracted for a bit with something else and returned a few minutes later to find Jude trying to get himself into the tub by way of a pillow that he was trying to use as a step stool. He had figured out that he needed some sort of lift to get into the tub and then figured out how to solve the problem with a pillow from the love seat in our bedroom. I was pretty impressed, especially since Jude had never seen the same thing modeled by the older children.

Jude was so excited to get into the tub that he even let me put his ear plugs in his ears without the usual fuss. The sweet taste of success was finally savored and Jude giggled and splashed with delight as soon as his feet hit the water.