Floating Uh Oh!

Daniela is learning how to float in the bath tub.

She's very proud of the fact that her hands and feet stay up

on the surface of the water.

We know her bum is resting on the bottom of the tub,

but still she's getting the concept of floating as her limbs really are.

So the other night after dinner I gave Daniela a tubby,

(mama was at college and I thought it would

be nice for her to come home to Daniela all

clean and in her pajamas.)

She was floating and all smiles and I was

day dreaming about how cute she was smiling

with her hair all swirling around in the water around her head...

when I realized something else was swirling around

her head.

I reached for the bumble-bee bath tub toy, but not

soon enough.  It was to late....

it had become entangled in her hair.

You pull the bottom end of the bee which is on a string

and then put it in the tub and the wings paddle around

in the water and makes it swim until the string retracts to the end and

then you have to pull it again.

So I sat Daniela up and the bee is about two inches away

from her skull.  I tried to work it free, but it was still

trying to swim.

Although, it is a favorite tub toy I desperately tried to

break the stupid wing off, so I could free her hair.

Daniela was starting to get upset about the situation

and I was starting to panic.  If we had to cut

it out of her hair, it would be super short.

Ashley would have a fit, she's suppose to get

Daniela's two year old pictures taken soon.

I yelled for Grandpe to come help us.

He tried to break the wing off and couldn't, so

he left to go get some tool.

I took a deep breath and tried for the third time

to manipulate the hair around the wing and get

it out of her hair.  It loosened a bit and I wound it this

way and that and little by little it came loose.

Wow! That was close.