Marker Face

As I was waking up this morning, Natalie came and got into bed with me. Then Kelton woke up and started crying. As I was getting up, Natalie said, "Go back to bed momma. I will go get my baby brother. Go back to sleep." Kelton always stops crying when she goes in to play with him. So I figured, why not? Well, I will tell you why not. Because when I got up a few minutes later (because it was much too quiet) and opened Kelton's door, Natalie very rapidly slammed shut a drawer of my craft stuff that she is not supposed to play with. Then I looked at Kelton, smiling a huge smile up at me with black marker on his face. And marker on his hands too. I have to say that the normal reaction would probably be to get mad, but I thought it was pretty funny. I had a hard time not smiling or laughing as I explained to Natalie that we don't color on each other. (She also had marker on the back of her hands.) I also discovered that washable markers are not as washable as I would like them to be. Oh, well. I guess it will all come off eventually--and it could have been much worse (or funnier!).

**Update: Okay, so it was a bit worse. I just discovered that the black marker was actually a Sharpie. (permanent marker, yes.) I got it off of Kelton but have now found that she scribbled all over the crib bumper and a little on the crib slats. I don't think any of that is coming off. Not so funny anymore...