Another Mary story

It's pretty common around here for Mary to get two bath's a day. She always gets one at night before bedtime, something we've done since the beginning of time (Mary time at least). The second bath comes in whenever I get my shower. She cannot, CANNOT, stand it if I'm in the shower and she's not. She'll be on the other side of the house completely busy with whatever toddlers do and as soon as she hears the bath water, she is THERE. So today I jumped in the shower while she's playing in her room - but as soon as the water was on, she's right outside the shower door pulling on her pajamas and begging "peeeease mamma, peeease." I reached out of the shower to get her clothes off and heave her into the tub (heave is SUCH a good word for picking up Mary), but she get pretty serious, thinks for a moment and runs out of the room. 30 seconds later she runs back in the room begging to get in the shower - I was pretty positive she had a dirty diaper, so there wasn't any way she was getting in the shower with me. She was pretty pitiful asking for a bath again and again, and saying my favorite "hold-chu mamma." Since I was pretty helpless with a head full of shampoo, I told her that she couldn't get a bath because she needed a new diaper - after telling her that 15 times, she finally just ran down to her room, got a stack of diapers and wipes, brought them to my bathroom and threw them in the bath with me. Thanks girlfriend. That didn't really solve the problem, but it was a dang cute try.