Annie the Artist

So I forgot to mention that we discovered Annie's creativity today. Brian was outside mowing the lawn and I was inside trying to get the girls some lunch. Kate decided she was going to pull some attitude and got a little smart mouthed with me. Unfortunately her behavior only went downhill which resulted in the necessity of having a few consecutive time outs. I think this was to date one of her biggest meltdowns. How quickly a child can go from being an angel to screaming at the top of her lungs!

As I was chasing Kate in circles around the house trying to get her into timeout, Annie was off on her own, coloring. (That sentence sounds pretty funny and indeed to someone watching it probably was!) This went on for about 5 minutes. When I proceeded to continue making lunch, Annie came up to me and said..."Ta Da, look Mommy, markers!" Let's just say a picture's worth a thousand words!

Annie thought she looked a lot better in markers than the paper looked with markers on it! At this point, all I could do was laugh hysterically! As Kate says, "What a little stinker!" Luckily it was washable and only on her arms and not on any furniture. Needless to say, the markers were put away for the day!