Don't ask me what possessed the child to do it, I've given up trying to understand, resorting instead to take life one mess at a time and let their future therapists sort out the details later.
The fact is, for whatever reason, null or void, Chan decided to partake in the spirit of graffiti, leaving giant green "tags" on our newly replaced and not so cheap carpet in the living room, with a permanent marker . . . yep.
Chandler is 7 and often claims to be "more like 9"; he's way past the "should know better stage." Chandler has also been having some anger and growing up issues and I'm sure like most things, we'll work through them and all learn heart warming, Brady bunch reminiscent lessons before moving on to the next episode. Until then there is a simpler lesson at the ready and that is "Little Brothers Love To Rat You Out"
As I confiscated my camera from Fisher, who was recording Chan's attempts at cleaning the mess up before his dad came home, the little spy reported to me " He can't get away with it"
The fact is, for whatever reason, null or void, Chan decided to partake in the spirit of graffiti, leaving giant green "tags" on our newly replaced and not so cheap carpet in the living room, with a permanent marker . . . yep.
Chandler is 7 and often claims to be "more like 9"; he's way past the "should know better stage." Chandler has also been having some anger and growing up issues and I'm sure like most things, we'll work through them and all learn heart warming, Brady bunch reminiscent lessons before moving on to the next episode. Until then there is a simpler lesson at the ready and that is "Little Brothers Love To Rat You Out"
As I confiscated my camera from Fisher, who was recording Chan's attempts at cleaning the mess up before his dad came home, the little spy reported to me " He can't get away with it"
"Shh, I'm Spying"
"Exhibit A- a rag to wipe stuff up with"
Soap & Water- it works for hands, why not carpet?
Scrubbing like Cinderella
Vacuumed too- to no avail
A portrait of the guilty, hard at work