Psychotomy

So, it’s important to know that DK hates hates hates getting water on his head and down into his eyes. He is seriously opposed to it. When we go swimming we have to hold him forcefully while we rinse out his hair after.

And washing his hair has become an endurance battle, and frankly I’ve just accepted that washing his hair ends up with wet floors and me needing a new shirt. He’ll hang his head over the side of the tub so that, in order to pour water into his hair, you’re basically pouring it on the floor. Beyond that, he almost never raises his head, so there’s no chance of pouring it down the back to keep it out of his eyes. And if I make him stand, he’ll grab me and bury his head in my chest. Meaning I get soaked (and the floor still gets wet) in the process.

Anyway, today before swimming, we waited a bit and jumped in the shower before getting in the pool, because I can never remember if you’re supposed to do that or not because it was always rather hit or miss when I was a kid. Some places required it, some places didn’t care. Some places required it AND didn’t care. But I decided to hit it today, and he went BALLISTIC as soon as water started hitting him.

Then we played in the pool, yadda yadda yadda. Afterwards in the family dressing room, I turned on the shower so we could rinse off and he was standing off to the side when I started. Imagine my surprise when I turned it on and found out he was right in the spray :o It has a high/low slider, and it was all the way at the bottom, so it wasn’t spraying where he anticipated :o He actually didn’t get as upset as I thought, but I grabbed him pretty quickly and soothed him. I tried to get stuff ready and then carried him kicking and screaming into the shower, rinsed him off quickly and decided to forgo washing his hair, because I wasn’t sure I was up to fighting that fight. Turned it off, and while I started trying to dry off a bit, he went back and started pointing and crying … so I turned the shower back on …

He splashed and played and had a hell of a fun time while I dried and dressed. He threw a huge fit when I turned it off again and started trying to get him ready to go. Squirming, screaming, kicking, flailing … Apparently he likes the shower fine as long as he can come and go as he likes :o

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