crayons
Ally loves to color. I have mentioned this before. Since she loves it so much, we have put a drawer of crayons in her art desk for her to play with when she wants. There is clean paper on the dividing wall by the stairs next to the desk. When she needs it, we give her more.
Lately, she has been climbing on top of her desk to get it herself. Not good. That wall is taller than she is, so she's not going to fall down the stairs. however, the desk gives her enough of a boost that she could climb the wall if she tried hard. We've had to try to teach her not to climb the desk.
We also went under her blanket the other day to hide with her and saw that she had been hiding something else. When she knows we can't see her, she colors on the wall. I know this is deliberate:
1. because there is a lot of crayon on the wall. Many colors.
2. because the crayon marks stop just before a spot where she would be visible. If she were coloring, and didn't know she wasn't supposed to, she wouldn't care if we could see her or not.
3. We asked her about it, and she was kinda proud.
She has also started coloring on other things. Like her sit-n-spin and her ride-on bus and her dad's pants (He's not happy about that one)
After she went to bed I had to Soft-Scrub (I love that stuff! It's the miracle cleaner) the wall. I gathered up all her crayons, and put them out of reach. She's not going to be happy. I hate having to do it, but I also hate scrubbing walls. Kid has got to learn some limits
Posted by ktjrdn
at 07:36 CDT