My sweet, beautiful, precious daughter has an obsession with pens and markers. If she can find one, she will immediately be compelled to write on herself with it. Fortunately, she generally goes for her belly and her legs and hasn't ever (knock on wood) written on her face or arms. She's also not interested in writing on her clothes, thankfully - she pulls her pants off so that she can get to her bare skin. Nanny Rebecca and I have learned that a little scrubbing with her green bath mitt does a pretty good job of fading the markings the first day and the second day, they're all gone.
This morning, I was getting dressed and suddenly realized that it was quiet...too quiet for there to not be trouble afoot. Sure enough, Rebecca had found a Sharpie pen and had not only written on herself, but she had also written on Baby Lucy's face. I thought Baby Lucy might need to undergo a head transplant the American Girl Doll Hospital, but Martha Stewart came through for me yet again by giving me tips on how to remove permanent marker. And to think that when my husband saw the Martha Stewart Homekeeping Handbook on my Christmas list one year, his comment to me was, "You know, it's not a novel, honey." After about an hour with an assortment of chemicals that have made me a little high, Baby Lucy's face is back to normal. Don't worry, I'm not going to use the same concoction to get the marks off Rebecca!
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