While I encourage creative play and artistic expression, this isn't exactly what I had in mind!
Rebecca was playing downstairs after lunch today, while I was upstairs beginning the task of closet re-organization. I'd checked on her and she was playing in her kitchen, and I let her watch Nick Jr. for a bit so that I could get some stuff done. I checked on her again and discovered this. She had gotten a permanent gel ink pen and used it as lipstick and then basically just kept smearing it around her mouth and on her hands and legs. She knew she was in trouble as soon as I came down the stairs. We did a scrub down with baby wipes (the alcohol in them is supposed to break down ink), then with vegetable oil (the oil is supposed to break down the ink) and again with the baby wipe. Most of it was gone, but she still had lips that looked like a teenage emo-goth kid. I had her look at it in the mirror, and it made her very upset. When she realized I wasn't going to get it all off and that Daddy would see it and that her friends at dance class would see it, she weeped and wailed, "I don't wanna look ugly!" She was apologetic and acknowledged that she had known she was going to get in trouble for it as she was doing it. She was even more sorry when she didn't get to watch her movie while she fell asleep for naptime! When she woke up from her nap, she remembered it and didn't want to tell Daddy about it and asked if she was still in trouble. I reminded her that she was not, and all was well with the world again.
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