I set up Shaun with some water colour paints to try and pass some of the morning away and then when he seemed to be busy and content I quickly ran down the basement to fuss with the laundry. When I came back upstairs to the kitchen there was Shaun with his paintbrush in hand and he was painted head to toe with black paint and there were stripes of black paint all over the floor. THEN I saw the wall! He's never, ever drawn, painted, scratched, not so much as smudged dirty fingers on the walls. And here he had painted black all over my kitchen wall! I shouted for Craig to come and see and then sent Shaun to the stairs for a timeout. Craig had the forethought to bring Shaun to the tub instead of allowing him to sit on the stairs since he was covered with black paint and our carpets are white, thank goodness! I stayed in the kitchen to wipe up the mess. As I was cleaning I kept finding more and more spots. I have no freaking idea how Shaun managed to get so many black paint spots in so many places in so little time, but he genuinely apologized when he came down after his bath so I couldn't be angry at him any longer. I'm just thankful that this is the very first time he's ever done a thing like this. Hopefully it'll be the last!
At least it was washable paint! Thank you Crayola!!!
Is it completely sick that the first thing I thought of after sending Shaun to timeout was to take a picture? ;)
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Oh, been there done that. But only with Pierce. My other two seemed to have skipped the colouring on everything but paper phase. Pierce is making it up for both of them!
And not completely sick at all to take a picture! I would have taken a picture too. In fact, I have done so.....take a look at this blog post of mine
http://outnumberedbykids.blogspot.com/2008/08/note-to-self.html
Child-proof locks only seem to be adult-proof. On the bright side...YAY for fine motor skills right?!
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