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"Whe-he…" He continued crying as she kneeled down setting him into the soapy ater

"Jayden… Shush… Shush… baby… It's alright… Soon baby soon…" She spoke softly to hi racked from his discomfort and her tiredness As she held him up in the tub, she took the ash cloth and lathered it up with the baby sha backwards It wasn't long before his dark curls were frothy with shas crazily as he grew sleepier He twisted and stretched his s backwards and splashing hisher voice as her own irritation grew "Okay, okay… baby… Just aa tantruun to run down his forehead and trickling over his eyelids

"Oh poor baby… poor baby…" She cooed as she took her wash cloth and dipped it into the water, wringing it a bit to re away at the soap on his face and eyes The ently wiped at his face, the calhtly relaxed in her hands and she could bath hi to shake so his arms, chest and back

"Ooooh… wake up- wake up Marla…" She ain It wasn't long before her head began bobbing doard involuntarily as sleep began to consu herself

"Woo…" She said shaking her head and fighting against the sleep She began to wash away the soap from his chest and back

"Ooh- Aaah…" She yawned as her eyes involuntarily slipped closed and the circularon his back caan to snooze

"Just five minutes… I'll close my eyes for only five ed forward and lolloping to the side she was asleep in the stillness of the roo ater As they both slept, his tiny body made slippery in the soapy waters quietly slipped from her relaxed hands and slowly into and finally under the waters As he lay quietly breathing, soft clear air bubbles began bubbling upwards froed under the water