Mabel became engrossed Saturday night (when I came over to babysit) in the self-imposed task of distributing water among three different-sized containers.
She devised several pouring experiments and put each one through many trials.
Bath time is a single small component in the large ritual of bedtime. Later – during the traditional rocking-and-reading stage – we went three times through a new book (Valentine present from parents) about a little girl who takes on the enormous and role-reversing job of putting her mother to bed.
