Maggie loves the water. Bath time is always fun; she always enjoys splish-splashing around in her tub. And she has this super tub like the Jetson's might have. There's a thermometer to read the temperature as the water flows from the faucet. From that trough it flows to a basin which overflows into the tub where baby is sitting. And there are plugholes in the tub so that as the clean warm water is flowing in, dirty cold water is flowing out into the sink.
So I thought, why don't we put her little tub in the big person's tub (which is, after all, where baths occur) and then we can bathe at the same time. Maggie in her tub tub, me in the shower. Only one problem with that. (No, it's not what you're thinking. The shower head pipes are different than the tub pipes, so we can in fact have on both the shower and the faucet at the same time.) The problem is that to have her little tub refreshing itself, it needs to be under the faucet with Mags facing the wall while I'm in the same end of the tub under the shower. I have heretofore been sliding her tub to the wrong end and just periodically pouring water from a cup into her tub. Which is fine.
Until I did this.
Bendy straws, three wide and six long, fit up the faucet and to her little tub where she can lounge and flap around safely while I'm at the right end of the tub showering. We're facing each other this way too so she can be amazed at Mommy's hair turning white suddenly and then miraculously back to normal. Wax keeps the joints of the straws sealed and the thermometer keeps the water the correct temperature so the wax doesn't melt. Not an engineer, indeed!
