Melanie really likes to color and draw these days, and I am so thrilled when she wants to make a "pretty picture"!! She knows she is only supposed to color on PAPER too. When you are a mother of two small children, you find that you need to take advantage of the short times your children are occupied to take a shower unless you have the luxury of waking before them to take your shower and start your day. Today, her color of choice was Orange Sharpie. So, this morning, while I was taking my shower and getting dressed for the day, Melanie was doing this:
After a nice little "chat" she went ahead and started doing this:
That was the straw that broke the camels back, so I packed the girls in the car and headed to Walmart to get some Color Wonder things for them to color with. Thank heavens there are such things as Magic Erasers. In no way am I rewarding them for coloring on things they shouldn't, or eating things they shouldn't (in Julia's case, she eats crayons!). There wasn't even a sharpie in sight when I took a shower. Also as a mother, you learn to make sure there is nothing around that could potentially cause a premature death of one of your children while you are taking a shower. This marker has been banned from our "living area" and is jailed in a plastic box in the top of a closet right now.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The Artist
Posted by Janice at 10:03 PM
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I do not know what it is about little kids, markers or crayons, and walls. Mine have all done it too. I used to get such looks from people when I would say they colored on the walls or whatever but I have now decided that Mine can not be the only one or a "magic eraser" would never of been invented. We went through 2 packs once cleaning up a coloring master piece.
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