Pink baby bath

We have been giving Eden a bath every night as part of her bedtime routine (which is in turn designed to help her sleep better...)  Eden loves her baby bath - from what we hear, most babies do!  For travel - her bathtub cost $16 on amazon, so we decided to just order one and have it shipped to Chicago.  We ordered the pink version just for fun - we have the blue version at home.

Her first night in Chicago she was extremely tired and screamed through her baby bath.  This is extremely uncommon - usually she calms right down in the bath.  But it was a new scene and a new time zone and she stayed up several hours past her bedtime even within that time zone, so who could blame her?  

The second night, though, even though it was late, she managed to get a good enough evening nap in while in the ergo - so she was definitely in the mood for a baby bath!!  Check it out:

And our FAVORITE...

Multiple people have independently described this photo as "sassy"

Eden's baby bath was lots of fun!  It didn't help her sleep better though.  She ended up in bed with me after a few hours both nights, and we kicked Michael out into one of the other eight bedrooms. I finally managed to do this "side lying and nurse in bed for hours" thing that seems to be the la leche people's solution for everything.  It's not a bad travel solution to keep baby from waking up the whole neighborhood, but I really didn't get any meaningful sleep.  Plus there is pretty much no way I could ever do this if Michael were there too. Apparently some working moms do this every night.  What.  

Our next trip is this weekend, to Camp Ramah Darom.  Then to Birmingham two weeks after that.  We way overbooked May!

Oh, and if you're wondering what happened to the baby bath... we left it in our rental car when we dropped it off at the airport.  Eep.