"I Painting Mommy!"

I feel like Blakeley minds pretty well and I have always been grateful that she is very careful about only coloring on paper, coloring books, etc. She is always so good to bring me markers if she finds them and to ask before she colors...etc. So as of last week we are just going to throw all of this right out the dang window!!!

I practically watched her color all over the beam in our basement! I called Direct TV about our bill, I was on the phone for them for about a half hour. Meanwhile Blakeley was about 2 feet from me saying that she was "painting" "look mommy, I painting." Now in my defense, one of her favorite things to do is get my make up brushes and pretend to paint things. I always figured, no harm done, she is just pretending!! So I thought that was what she was doing. I hung up the phone stoked that our new monthly price for Direct TV was 30$ less than before and...nearly crapped my pants when I realized what she was really "painting" with...crayons! Oh boy I was very, very, very unhappy with her. I marched her right to her room and let her know that she knew better and this was absolutely unacceptable! I went down snapped some photos and then got her out of her room to clean it up...I talked to her about why we don't do this and told her to get cleaning. As you can see she was really sad and upset about it...

She told me "this is fun mommy" it was one of those moments when you have to laugh or you might cry or maybe beat your child :) The red and purple came right off with a warm rag but the blue wouldn't budge at all. I had to use the magic eraser for that which worked like a charm! So we survived our first coloring incident and I'm pretty sure it won't be our last!