My morning routine is pretty set now. I get up, coffee until awake, play on my phone with Facebook/email/etc, exercise, then shower and get ready for the day.

Morning showers have become the most fun part of my day since having my little dude. He’s always been a little more attached than the girls, and a bad sleeper in comparison. That means he is awake when I want to shower and that he is not willing to let me leave while I’m home. 

So around the time he was 18 months he started to join me in the shower. Initially it was a bit of a gong show, but once he became less afraid, he took to it like a duck to water, complete with quaking some days. It’s true what they say- just add water to take away the cranky from a kid.

So while I have always seen the shower as something to do to keep clean and feel warm when cold, it has slowly turned into play time with a funny little boy. 

He spends his time pouring water between containers, or watching the prism in the shower when he puts his hand in the flow and it splits in the light. His laughter echoes in the shower stall, and never fails to make me smile as well.

I know someday soon he won’t want to have a shower with his mommy, and as he gets old this will fade away into that memory vault. 

But for today, I’m laughing as he beeps my nose after growling and dumping water on himself. 

My funny little boy