A little color

Marlow likes to draw and color...especially with markers. She will sit for a long time working on a picture, longer than I would think most three year olds sit still and color. Sometimes she gets a bit carried away, the marker leaves the paper and she decorates her skin a little. I remember doing this as a child too, mostly I would draw smiley faces on my knees or toes....one time Michelle convinced me to let her color socks on my feet with a black marker.....but I'm getting away from my story.


Saturday she was coloring with some inexpensive (not washable) markers I stuck in the kids' stockings for Christmas (cheap markers = big mistake), when she decided to draw a purple goatee on her chin. When I saw her later she had forgotten about it and I asked her, "Marlow, what's on your chin?" She looked confused for a minute and then she smiled and said, "Oh, a little color."

Joseph was getting ready to go run a few errands and invited her to go with him, so we got a baby wipe and tried to clean her chin off --- and discovered that it wouldn't come off. So she went out with dad with a purple chin. By the end of the next day, her color was ready to be washed completely off in the bath.