“Rubber duckie–you’re the one! You make bath time lots of fun!”
A good rubber duckie is a staple of baby baths. Agnes’ mother brought one over for us to use while giving the girls their baths. It’s new and clean, its head is turned a quarter turn, and it has nice eyelashes. She also brought over Max’s old rubber duckie. This one is over twenty years old and its eyes look like they’ve been repainted. It’s pretty cute though, as it’s more round and squat. The big question was which rubber duckie would we use. The new one is on the left; the old one is on the right.
Well, we didn’t have a lot of criteria to choose between these two rubber duckies: it had to be cute, it had to be easy to clean, and it had to float. There was no clear winner from the first two criteria, so we moved on to the float test.
That quarter turn of the head for the new rubber duckie turns out to be its downfall. It just doesn’t float. Put it in water and it immediately capsizes on the side where its head is turned. Didn’t they do basic product testing? Who makes a rubber duckie that doesn’t float? That did it for us. The new rubber duckie sits in the corner of our bathtub. Max’s old rubber duckie is the one that gets used in the girls’ bath.