Thu 31 Jan 2008
Here’s to lipstick and chocolate cake!
Posted by Nette @ Smiling Mom under My children??, Picture Time!, Stop acting your age!, Stupid things people do
Here’s a few highlights of the week:
Hubby Santa had the genius idea to buy window markers and give it to the kids in their window stockings. In San Diego. At my parents house. With no less than 50 windows and French doors. I’m not exaggerating on that number either!
Smiling Mom Mrs. Clause knew her dad well enough and, let’s be honest, her kids well enough, to know that markers on a window and children at my parents house made for bad juju. (You are WELCOME Dad!) She made an executive decision not to put the those markers into their stockings.
Hubby found them yesterday.
Ahem.
Then eClaire found out that not only did the pink marker make for great abstract art, but it also made for a great lipstick color.
Ya. So.… That was fun!
My kids are such budding artists!
Oh! Oh!
And then today! My daughter thought she’d “help” (quote fingers implied) me make cupcakes for her upcoming birthday party! It was so much fun!! Having her help, I mean!! Look at what she did!!
Fun huh??!!
Yes. That is a bite mark. But wait there is more!
FIVE Cupcakes!! Thank goodness for frosting. No one will ever know the difference. hehehe
Frosting solves all problems.
Well..
Except for this one.
You see, I have this incredibly cruel sense of humor. I love to take pictures at totally inappropriate times.
Like just after eClaire gets off of time-out for EATING MY CUPCAKES!! Do you see the chocolate up on her forehead?
So funny!! 
…I mean, so sad 
But really, you couldn’t get a more pathetic picture if you tried!
And to answer the question that’s on all your minds, Yes. I’m already saving for her looming therapy sessions.
February 1st, 2008 at 9:00 am
But, with curls like those, you can forgive her anything, right?
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
you know, eClaire and Ricky are pretty much the same age and he has those damn pens too. loves them and the finger paints!!
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
oh man, that’s awesome.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I love that you took her picture! But really, how do you resist a face like that and those curls!
I think Santa was very naughty for giving those markers. Some sort of punishment is surely necessary.
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February 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
HAHAHA! I love that you took the pictures! What craziness. Thank goodness for your sense of humor… You could either go stark-raving mad, or just have a good time with it all.
(And she is insanely gorgeous, by the way!)
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February 5th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
And that’s pretty much how my son “helps” with the cupcakes too, although of course he also eats the batter. When my brother was little he took a bite out of each and every meticulously decorated petit four my mom had decorated — she had stepped out to answer the door.
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