Xander was drawing on paper, with stencils, on the kitchen table. Unbenownst to us, his writing implement was a silver Sharpie.
He left the table.
Connor climbed up on his chair and copied his brother: drawing within the stencil, with the silver Sharpie, on the table.
Only problem is, he forgot the paper part.
Our table is now covered in silver Sharpie.
Thankfully, it comes out with rubbing alcohol. 15 minutes of hard elbow grease later, the table was back to itself. Xander helped in the cleaning process, as he was the one who had left everything out.
It's always a hard sell when a kid did something so properly but does just one thing wrong that messes the whole thing up, as Connor did with the Sharpie. It's like Ari's independence in solving his own issue of wanting food and going in the pantry to eat candy. You're proud and annoyed at the same time.
'Tis the story of my life! :)
Xander does try to do everything right down to the last smidgen, so let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater. And he helped clean up the table, no easy task. Not likely he'll make the same mistake again. Just be PROUD!!!!! ....or were you talking about Connor?
ReplyDeleteNo doubt he'll go on MAKING USE OF anything he can get his hands on!!!!
Oops, I had been talking about Connor, I clarified!
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