Our Little Artist

For Christmas, Chloe got a Dora playhouse that came with markers so you can color on it. At

first it was a really fun gift. Now it's just annoying. Chloe is in love with markers. But she prefers to color on herself rather than the playhouse or coloring books. Apparently after we put her to bed last night, she got up to play. We had taken all of her markers out of her room, or at least so we thought. This morning when I went to get her up she had a

purple face. As I peeled back the covers, there were purple hands, purple artwork on her arms, legs, feet. She had been very busy last night with her secret stash of markers! After a long bath and good scrubbing, I had to send my daughter to preschool with light purple artwork still visible. We scrubbed her until we thought her skin might come off but still couldn't get all the marker off of her. Oh, well. To her, she was beautiful. And she was so proud of her "make-up" that she did all by herself and her "nail polish" that she painted on and her "pretty" arms and legs. I guess the only thing to do is laugh!

As you can see, she even has her nails done!!!