I knew the kids were being too quite!

[Cindiloohoo]

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Woulda been great for the Fourth of July...red, white, and blue

 

[Mrs. Turbo]

ah yes....brings back memories of a freshly painted hallway at my house that got decorated by a sharpie and crayons the very next day....kids! good thing they are so cute.

 

[suzettex5]

So sorry to laugh, but as mom to 5, I sooooo feel your pain!! Been there, done that, still have RED sharpie all over the bedroom closet doors as a souvenier!! Those magic eraser things do a decent job of getting most of it off the walls though. (not for use on skin though)

I didnt know about the rubbing alcohol trick, I will have to remember that for the next time my little 'Picasso's" decide to turn themselves into living art!

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

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Yeah, ethyl alcohol takes permanent marker right off! Pretty handy thing to know. I'm sure it would remove it from any hard surface. It might work on fabrics too, but I haven't tried it. Once I found this out I went and drew on a bunch of things just so I could use the alcohol to take it off. It's pretty cool!

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

my kids have done that, and they usually fade mostly in 3 days. silly kids.

 

[LALASD4]

Gasoline will take everything off but be very careful!

 

[Cindiloohoo]

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I'm not taking THAT advice from a tax preparer/insurance agent without proof!

Could you show us how that works?

 

[debilorrah]

Better than fingerpainting the walls with poo.

 

[suzettex5]

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!! Yeah, um........I learned to never leave a 2 year old w/out a diaper on for more than 2 minutes while I'm out of the room. It was

And he nailed the carpets, walls, and dresser drawers. How on EARTH can a kid DO that so fast??? I'm still in disbelief, but I do LOVE to tell that story to the kids, for some reason they think its hilarious. It was NOT hilarious cleaning it up.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

I believe tea tree oil will get it out too, and it's not damaging to the skin. Goodness, my kids have drawn on themselves (and the walls, and the furniture, and the animals...) more times than I can recall. In fact, my lovely younger DD STILL occasionally does things like that. She'll be 11 on Thanksgiving Day. Every time I think we're past that stuff, she does something like that again. This evening she asked me to braid her hair for the Thanksgiving church dinner party, and so she comes to me with the hair tie and the comb, and I'm working on her hair when I notice that the nails on her left hand are blue. But the blue is all smudged, like she tried hard to wipe it off. I happen to know that we don't have blue nailpolish in the house right now, so I question her about it. She turns ten shades of red and tucks her hand behind her back and says it was an accident. Really? An accident on ALL 5 FINGER NAILS? She got a hold of a black permanent marker a month or so ago and drew on herself. I caught her and chastised her, telling her it was permanent and wasn't going to come out. So she starts whining that she thought it was a washable marker. So I asked her, does that make it ok? A sheepish look and a trip to the bathroom. Ugh. It's reasons like this that moms go gray.

...And don't get me started on babies without diapers!!!! I made that mistake once. Only once. And it was with my older DD. She had a diaper rash and my mom suggested some fresh air on her little butt would do her a world of good. So there is my baby, walking around the perimeter of her playpen, naked as the day she was born. And I hear this weird wet sound. I look at the baby and she is bobbing up and down and giggling. She starts walking back around to the front of the playpen as I'm approaching her and...yep. She had diarrhea.

She got a bath, the floors got scrubbed, and I got laughed at by my mom. I was just very glad that we had pulled up the carpet before she was born.