Dear Kid Saturday – The Great Fingerpaint Debacle of 2010

Dear TJ,

This was supposed to be a letter about how proud I was of you at your preschool graduation yesterday. I’ll have to save that post for another day. Because last night, you really pulled out all the stops. (Thanks to The Angel Forever for the photos.)

We had friends over for a Pampered Chef demo, and you got to play with NHL and JSL upstairs in your room while the grown-ups talked kitchen gadgets in the living room.

We should have known something was up when it got too quiet upstairs.

Apparently, you had a box of fingerpaints in your room that we didn’t know about. You three found them and decided to play with them. NHL’s ingenuity used one of your metal toy planes to poke a hole in the safety seal over the paints, and you proceeded to paint yourselves. This is what your carpet looked like:

And you had to know it was wrong, because before you guys came down to tell us about it, you tried to clean up after yourselves with toilet paper…

The good news is that the fingerpaints were washable, or else no one would have been smiling. Daddy got most of the paint off of your carpet, but we’ll need to borrow Grandma Debbie’s carpet cleaner to finish the job. You cleaned up just fine in the bath tub.

Please never do anything like this again though.

Love,

Mommy

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Christina Gleason (976 Posts)

That’s me: Christina Gleason. I’m a writer, editor, and disability advocate. I'm a multiply disabled autistic lady doing my best in this world built for abled people. I’m a geek for grammar, fantasy, and casual gaming. I hate vegetables. I cannot reliably speak, so I’ll happily conduct business over email or messaging instead.