Rita turned off the shower and lifted Leah from the tub. While she waited for Leah to finishing pooping, she got the tub ready for a bath. A bath she was going to be in charge of. Clearly, Tina had the wrong idea when it came to Leah's capabilities. No doubt Leah was feeling pressure to be more mature than she actually was. With that weighing on her, it was only a matter of time before Leah buckled.
By the time Leah was done using her diaper, the bath was ready. Rita helped Leah out of her diaper and plopped her into the tub.
"I can wash myself," Leah protested. Rita smiled at her.
"Sweetie, it's okay. You don't have to lie to me." She began to scrub Leah's hair. "Tina pushes you to do things you're not capable of yet, I bet. That's why you keep thinking you can do big girl stuff when you can't. But when you're here with Auntie Rita, you don't have to worry about that. Only do what you can do."
"But..."
"And I'll talk to Tina about how she's expecting too much of you," Rita added. Leah opened her mouth like she wanted to say something, but a clump of bubbles fell from her hair into the tub and she began to play with it.
Leah remained distracted by the bubbles the entire bath, not caring about Rita scrubbing every inch of her clean. Rita toweled her off and put a fresh diaper on her, then instructed her to go pick out her outfit for the day. If she needed help putting them on, Rita would gladly do so.
After cleaning up the mess in the bathroom, Rita went to Leah's bedroom, where she found Leah...