By Easter decorations, I'm talking about a couple of stuffed bunnies and some egg-shaped candles . . . how much trouble could two little girls get into?
Well.
After carefully balancing our festive items on top of the other stuff in our "holiday cupboard," I came downstairs to find Alaina had helped herself to the diaper cream.
After snapping a couple of pictures I ran into the kitchen to get the paper towels.
While I was gone, Alaina got out the baby powder and finished the job--sprinkling it all over the items she'd covered with diaper cream, of course.
Later that day I must have had some kind of memory lapse, because I decided it would be a good idea to look up a few Mother's Day gift ideas online while Alaina and Janae colored. Not two minutes later, Janae informed me, "Alaina is drawing all over with markers!"
Sure enough, she'd drawn all over her hands, arms, neck, shirt and pants. With markers. (I swear she had only had crayons when I'd looked away.)
I took her into the bathroom and was surprised at how easily the ink came off (Janae had drawn on her hands with the same markers a few days earlier, and I'd scrubbed and scrubbed without success).
It was then that I realized the diaper cream residue had probably acted as a barrier and prevented the ink from seeping in.
It was apparently our lucky day :)
I honestly used to wonder about mothers who claimed their children had got into such trouble when they'd been left alone for only a minute . . . but now I am convinced that a minute is all it takes.
The only time it's safe to turn my back on Alaina is when she's asleep . . . and even then in might be safer to have Benjamin and Janae take turns keeping watch!
How else will I ever get anything done?
2 comments:
She looks like a perfect angel when she is sleeping :0) Nobody would guess that she could get herself into such a pickle!
That is so funny! What a cutie!
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