Body Art and a Trip Down Memory Lane

Kate loves to draw with markers. (Washable, of course.) She is very good about drawing with one marker at a time, and putting the lid back on the marker before she moves to the next color. On this particular day, I gave her some markers and paper to draw with in the kitchen while I was working on dinner. I looked up to see that she had taken the red marker and colored all over her arm. It was cherry scented, and her arm smelled of cherries even after we washed it off. Mmmmm, cherries.

This little incident reminded me of a similar one that occurred when Rachael was just about Kate's age. -For some reason, Morgan never drew on herself.- Anyway, one day I gave Rachael some paper and a pen to draw with while I did the dishes. After a while I looked over to see that she was drawing on the table. I cleaned it up and we moved on with our day. Later on that night as I was going to put Rachael in her jammies, I discovered that not only had she colored on the table with the pen, she had also covered her little tummy with the pen. Nice Rach. Nice.


*Side Note: It was with Rachael that I learned all about washable markers and Mr. Clean's FABULOUS magic erasers. She was quite the little artist. Walls, floors, furniture, carpet, etc.