Messes

Yesterday, Keats was supposed to be having quiet time in his room. Instead, he did this to his hands:

So these colorful papers...excuse me, works of art...are the reason for the blue hands on my son. This is a little package of "Color Wonder" by Crayola...the things that promise the pens work only on the paper, nowhere else. Well, this may be true, but Keats found a way around all of that. This Color Wonder pack was a new kind that had black paper and you wrote on them with clear pens, causing the black to magically disappear, and the color to magically appear. Keats suspected that the clear ink was actually water...so he tried a whole piece of paper under running water...and the black came off! And went right on to his hands. So he did another piece, and another, and another...until the papers were free of the black coating.

When I reacted with shock at his hands, Keats just sort of smiled and said "But I worked really hard to make you guys some cool art and I was going to give it to you guys as a present!!"

Couldn't really get too mad at that. His hands are still blue today. It will not come off!

Here's what Sullivan is up to today: walking around with a naked bottom (sat on the potty once but no success) and trying to get Moose to eat banana off the plates that are mostly used only to give the cats some canned cat food every now & then. Moose loves loves loves bananas but was a little miffed, as was Reuben, to discover that the plate held no wet kitty food. =^..^=