The Thing I Learned From Baby wipes.

Yes, baby wipes.

An all too normal item to a nanny and aunt like myself.

But, since yesterday, I will never, ever think of them the same way again.

Why?

Well, I was going to add this to last night’s post but I was tired and it was already getting long.

Every morning we take the older kids outside to play and run out some of their overflowing energy.

We have chalk, bubbles, beach balls, balloons, and many other simple activities.

But as kids do, they got messy.

They were fascinated with the feeling of the chalk, so they rubbed it all over their hands, arms, faces, us…well, you get the point.

We were very well planned (in my opinion) and brought baby wipes to clean them off before we took them inside.

It was about time to go do some inside games and crafts so I got out the wipes and started wiping off the hands of the boy on my lap.

Almost instantly, I had a swarm of kids around me sticking their hands out and whining to be cleaned off.

I took this as very strange first…

Most kids hate getting cleaned off.

But then again, most kids aren’t orphans.

Most kids don’t have to fight for attention and constantly crave love and a gentle touch.

That’s what we were doing, taking a few seconds to specifically take care of one child in a loving manner.

And that’s all they wanted.

And that’s why baby wipes will never look the same!