Here’s the story in a nutshell. My two girls were acting scrappy so I sent them to their shared room for a little quite time on their bunkbeds. All was peaceful and quiet for a while. Mothers know this is usually a sign of trouble.
Just then my oldest DD yells out, “Mom! A. has BLUE on almost her whole body!”
I jump up and run upstairs to their room. Sweet A. was sitting quietly on her bed as instructed, with a blue crayola marker and apparently not enough paper to scribble on. She did this instead:
As you can see, she is devastated at the consequence of coloring her body smurf-blue. Unfortunately, she doesn’t even know what smurfs are . . . so I couldn’t even use that one.
I was faced with a dilemma. Do I scold? Laugh? Cry? Get the camera? I got the camera . . . and told her we needed to take a picture to show her dad what she had done (trying to be stern, but holding in my laughter).
She was striking the poses, I tell you. Admiring her artistic creation. Amazingly enough, she didn’t get ANY marker on her bedding. I don’t know how, as you can see she was pretty thorough with this. She is also a lefty, as you can see her right arm was the more “artistically rendered” one.
Enough admiring. Off to the bath. As she smiled while the blue water filled the tub, I told her, “You’re going to be blue for a really long time.”
“Oh.” She casually replied.
Big sister added, “That’s not going to look very good at church!” (Always thinking ahead!)
Eventually the blue did come off and my darling A. emerged from her brief smurfdom.
The moral of the story: Beware the quiet child, as she is more likely to get into mischief.
