I pulled out a bit of fall decor today. Mary was excited to help. She entertained herself with Christmas ornaments and Easter bunnies while I dug for the few items I could find to make our house feel as much like fall as possible. I left her alone for a minute too long - she wandered from the landing with all her festive toys and found herself a dry erase marker.
I have gotten so much better about making sure I don't leave pens and markers around the house; a few hours of scrubbing pictures off the wall will do that to you. Mary is also getting better about learning to write only on paper and nothing else. I was still a bit mortified when she came down the stairs with marker all over her legs this morning. She was completely embarrassed and was trying her best to cover her little legs so I wouldn't see what she had done. I asked her where the marker was and went to find the rest of the damage on the walls upstairs. I found the marker with a piece of paper she had colored all over, but nothing else. The wall, the furniture, the stairs . . . everything was clean! She was still hiding when I came back down, and wouldn't let me see her legs. She even asked for a paper towel to clean it off. I made a big deal out of her not writing on the walls, we celebrated a bit, she was pretty excited.
She was still too embarrassed to take a picture until we cleaned off her legs. I didn't know I would be so happy about her writing on HERSELF. She's learning! and the walls are clean! I love her!
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The first picture is adorable. She is so embarrassed!
One time someone (my brother Dean) colored on the walls at the house. I was 4 or 5 so Dean would have been 3 or 4. My parents asked us both who colored on the walls. We both shook our heads no. So they had us go in the room with the colored wall and 'pretend' to color on the wall. Dean realized that his hands would line up directly with the wall painting so he stood on his tip toes and reached as high as he could. My dad saw through his trick and he got in trouble. I think coloring on the wall is every child's dream...and nightmare.
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