Bathing with siblings

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	Just wondering if anyone here bathes their autistic child with his/her sibling and if so, how does it go? Today I gave Luke a bath with Andrew (holding tight to Andrew the whole time) and it went okay, except Luke kept trying to hog all the bath toys.  He looked at Andrew like, "You don't belong in here!  Can't I even get a bath by myself anymore?!" I'd have to have eyes in the back of my head to bathemine one at a time. My ds is in the back of the tub and dd 17mos is in the baby seat all buckled in tight with more tub toys than water most times. I grab everything I'll need including a drink, the phone and a book before we even get in the bathroom. Not to mention all the dressing stuff, & lotions & pullups/diapers because where one is they both are~ I've never had the luxury of one at a time because ds, 3 is an escape artist!  I throw in some epsom salts and refresh the hot water every 15 mins and we're good to go for an hour while they play and me and my book get soaked but it is truly the life!  Anybody else take two to the potty with them? one on my lap one on the baby potty and we sing and read...I know TMI right? ya gotta do what ya gotta do! Anna & Isaiah takes baths together. They fight a lot but laught a lot together too.  Anna has "HER" side of the tub. Funny thing is Anna always gets her side and the curtain ALWAYs has to be pulled to the other side. Once, I had it pulled to her side and she freaked...took me a minute to figure out what it was. I once tried to get Anna to get in the bath w/me and she just didn't like that I hogged the whole tub.    Grant takes baths with Ryan.  He likes it for the most part but they start fighting over the toys and then start dumping water out of the tub if I am not looking. all my older kids shower alone  and my 3 and 4 year old bath in the babybath as they are  scared of the plug hole  when the water goes down.Its always a quick bath   with all the joy of the screaming and  crying  when you wash their hair.Occasionally, we do both boys together. It really all depends on how Jake is doing. If he's been freaking during baths (like lately) then we don't do them together. It'd be too dangerous, with all the kicking and screaming, etc. There have been a few times where we've done them together and it's worked ok. I have to be right there and ready to pull Mikey out if Jake get's out of hand. Whenever Logan takes a bath Claudia jumps right in and vice versa. So they always end up in the tub together. It is actually the only time when they play together. So we encourage it. Othewise logan has no interest in her.So as you can imagine my children are very clean(we take a lot of baths) It makes Claudia happy that he wants her in there. Danielle
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