Emily, the tagger *updated*

oh how emily loves to color. coloring was something i'd always banked on if i needed a few minutes to myself. emily loves to color in coloring books, on paper, on walls and on nice, new big girl furniture. yep, it was christened last night around 7:45.

dan plays with our church's praise band and he had practice last night at 7:30. i hate it when he has to practice at night, but oh well, what can i do? sorry JK. i just hate it. anyway, i was downstairs nursing elliot. emily told me she and ethan were going to color. well, the only coloring that's allowed upstairs is with the color wonder markers, so that's what i assumed she was going to do. well, i was wrong. elliot was finished so i went upstairs to check on them. i nearly lost my mind. there they were, standing in front of emily's brand new furniture coloring on it. they turned around and saw me and emily started crying. i just stood there, not saying anything. she kept telling me she "just did not want to color on paper" - she knows she's only allowed to color on paper. she knew she was in trouble. they both went to timeout, and for ethan, that really hurts his feelings. needless to say they went to bed right after timeout. i was over them for the rest of the night.

we've attempted twice to get the color off. once with just tap water and once with 409. i'll have to get a magic eraser to get the rest off. man, i hope it comes off. and if you are wondering, yes i took their crayons away. it'll be rough, but i'll make it!! i may have to take the color wonder markers away as well. today emily informed me that she could still color, but only with her markers. i think to make the point the markers have to go up too. i can't help but think she concocted this plan to tag her furniture because she knew she had a good 30 minutes or so since i was nursing elliot. she's working me.

anyway! she also colored on her little tikes dressing table. no big deal, she's colored all over that before. but i took a picture of what she colored on it; a bus. a pretty good picture of a bus actually. it sorta reminds me of scooby doo's mystery machine!

i included a picture emily drew today in sunday school. i'm not really sure, but we think her teacher asked them to draw a place that God would be with them. emily loves to go to the kemah boardwalk, so she drew kemah. she included the train tracks (the pink squiggly line), the farris wheel (it looks like a tree with dots on it), and the fountain (the green lines and circle). not real sure what the other things are... i'm going to save this one and scrap it in a two-page layout!

so anyway, sometimes it's hard to take away things they love. she'll miss her crayons!

**i had no sooner posted when i went in the kitchen and found this. i thought by putting old tee-shirts on them i was taking the necessary precautions. obviously, not. i'm to blame, i know, for leaving them alone. but man!

i can NOT WAIT until MDO starts. obviously my kids need to do two crafts a day to get their creative energy out. and yes, emily painted most of him and as you can see she's very proud...