First Bath & First Bath Together

Up until last week, I had always bathed the boys separately, one after the other, in their baby tub, just because it was safer since most of the time I bathed them by myself.  If I bathed them at the same time, I was afraid that I'd have to leave one alone in the tub twice... while getting the other one in and out.  And, after the bath, while I'm dressing one of them, the other one would have to be left in the pack and play naked with NO diaper on... that's just not a good thing! :)  So, needless to say, it's been a lot easier and safer to bathe them separately.   

But, one evening last week, I decided to try bathing them together in our tub, since Evan was home and I had an extra pair of hands.  Here they are... fighting over the same bath toy, of course!

They seemed to enjoy their bath together...

"Hey, dad, will you wash my back?"

And, almost 14 months ago, we were just giving them their first bath at home at eight days old... that was also the day we (finally) removed the name tags from their wrist!

I was SO scared that I woudn't be able to tell the boys apart that I had Evelyn hold each baby up before his bath so I could take pictures of their birthmarks (both of them have a series of birthmarks down their neck and back)!

I think Bryce went first...

Squeaky clean...

Then it was Ben's turn... I love this picture!  Evan gave them their first bath since I was still recovering from my c-section.

They couldn't start before I took his birthmark pictures!

It broke my heart to see him cry...

All snuggled and clean...

In the mean time, Bryce was already dressed and swaddled...

And, getting sleepy...

Sweet dreams my sweet boy...

Now it's Benjamin's turn to get dressed and swaddled...

I guess the bath must have happened in the morning, because I also found these pictures from later on that afternoon of the boys laying together...

It's already hard to remember how tiny they were...

Time for another nap!