On Thursday, at the annual evaluation day for Arabella's school, her preschool teacher reminded me that she believes Arabella is a child who must be constantly supervised. Constantly. So I have no good excuse for leaving her to watch tv in the diningroom for an hour. All I can say is I thought she was watching tv. Silly me.
Yesterday, while I was in the living room with a sleeping Sabine (she really needed the sleep) and Michael was upstairs taking his post-work nap, Arabella got a Sharpie. She did not find this lying about, unattended. She had to climb on the computer desk, probably stand on top of the desk itself, to reach a jar of pens on the top shelf above the computer, high enough that I can't always see which pen I am getting.
With this Sharpie she marked on (in order clockwise from the desk):
- the stove
- the teakettle
- a cookie sheet
- the kitchen cabinet
- the kitchen wall
- the refrigerator
- the dry-erase board
- the large white and blue ceramic bowl we use for salad
- an unglazed ceramic lion
- the file cabinet
- the antique cherry cabinet
- the dining room walls (yes, multiple) including a circle large enough that were it a door I could have stepped through.
- her easel, including the chalkboard
- her 3-drawer cabinet for crayons and paper
- a green living room cushion
Daddy is ... determined ... enough that he managed to erase nearly all the marks with Windex and a Mr. Clean eraser, but Arabella is grounded until she is 20.
3 comments:
Oh boy... a sharpie and a 4 year old never equals positive results. Good luck on the removal effort!
Melissa
It is at this time I recall the times I said to myself, "And why did we have kids??".
I still need to be supervised, but they have removed the restraints with conditions attached.
Oh no! Either rubbing alcohol or acetone should take it off the smooth surfaces, but the rest... yikes.
--the other Cara
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