Mommy, See?

"I colored that wall!"

Juliet has really started to enjoy coloring.  She likes her crayons that Aunt Stacey gave her for her birthday, and she likes my pens.  She will color in the booklet Aunt Stacey got her, and she will color on my work papers.  She will even color on junk mail.  Whenever she has finishes her picture, she always says, "Mommy, see?!?" 

Two Saturdays ago, she colored on the wall and the door with one of my pens.  (Thank goodness for Magic Erasers.)  We talked about how that was not an acceptable place to color, and she said she understood.

Then, last Friday, she colored all over her legs in the car on the way home from school.  As soon as I heard, "Mommy, see?!?" I was afraid to look in the back seat.  Instead of coloring on the legal pad I handed her, she had colored all over her thighs.  At least it wasn't on her clothes?  Or the leather seats?

One night last week, she remembered that we had bath crayons and asked for them.  I handed her the red one, and she went right to work, coloring on the tub.  Then she colored on two of the three walls.  She was so very proud of herself and kept saying, "I colored that wall!"  I think she was excited that she got to color on the walls after the talking-to she got last weekend.

Love this girl and her art!