Getting brave in the bathtub

Stephen has a little blow up bathtub that sits in our big bathtub. He loves to throw his toys over the side of it and into the big bathtub. He then looks over the edge and tries to get them.

One thing about Stephen is that he never looks to us for help. If he wants something, he will get it. This isn't something we have tried to teach him or anything. We sit with him on the floor to play and he knows we would give him toys if we wanted. I am always sitting right at the edge of the tub and if he dropped them and looked at me, I would get them for him. But he never expects us to do that.

So back to the bathtub. For a while he would just throw his toys and look over the edge but wouldn't try and get them. I guess he knew they were too far to reach. He would just happily splash sans toys (we would get them back for him after a while, but he never fussed or looked for us too). But Friday night he just reached right over and got his own toys back. When he did this he was then on his stomach and loved being able to see over the edge and reach down.

There is a piece of material on the back on the tub with a suction cup so you can hang the tub up the dry and he loved reaching down to play with it, that's why he's looking over the back of the tub.

He is getting so big!