During the week I take a shower before S&Z wake up so that I'm ready to leave the house once Derek gets home from work. On the weekends, however, I stay in bed until they start making noise and then shower once Derek is home from work. When I woke up today I found out that Derek had been "mandated". This meant that following his 11:30pm-7:30am shift last night, he had to stay on for the daytime (7:30am-3:30pm) shift as well. Thankfully he got released around 10:30am, otherwise he would've worked 16 hours straight, been off for 8, then back there tonight at 11:30 again. By the time I got the news this morning it was too late for me to take a shower before getting the kids up. This left me in the position of showering after breakfast with twenty-month-old twin terrors running around unsupervised.
I ended up gating off the rest of the house so that they could only be in the bathroom or the nursery. Of course all they wanted to do was stand by the tub with the shower curtain pulled back so they could see what I was doing. I realized it was the first time they had seen one of us take a shower, so I explained to them (while setting a world record for the fastest shower ever) that "mommy's wash their hair too". I told Derek later not to be surprised if they mimicked some hair washing when they took their next bath. Sure enough...
I ended up gating off the rest of the house so that they could only be in the bathroom or the nursery. Of course all they wanted to do was stand by the tub with the shower curtain pulled back so they could see what I was doing. I realized it was the first time they had seen one of us take a shower, so I explained to them (while setting a world record for the fastest shower ever) that "mommy's wash their hair too". I told Derek later not to be surprised if they mimicked some hair washing when they took their next bath. Sure enough...
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