In just under a month, I will be having my little blog will be having it’s 1 year anniversary. It’s been almost a year since I was driven by frustration to start this thing. And in just over a month, CamCam will be turning 3. Yup, I will have survived a two year old. Again. I thought, over the next month, it would be interesting to see how much has changed in the past year. I’m going to find some old posts from the early days, back when I had only like 2 people reading my blog, and repost them now that I have oodles and oodles of people visiting me daily. Well, not quite oodles, but 10 at least.
Yeah, reposting- how lazy can I get right? But, ^^^ahem, read the title.
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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Considering a Ban on Markers
Today "Little Miss Chatterbox" broke her eyeglasses, so I had to take her and the three little guys to the eye doctor to get her prescription. Somehow we ended up there without CamCam's shoes, so I had to carry him the whole time. He was sitting in my lap, and I looked down at his legs and saw they were covered in red and green marker.
"What's this?" I asked.
"Boo-Boos," CamCam replied.
"How did he get at markers?" I asked noone in particular. "And if they're all over his legs, where else did he write?!?!?!" …………….(Click here to continue reading)
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One of my biggest frustrations a year ago were writing utensils. CamCam LOVES to draw, and wrote on everything. He ruined our couch by drawing all over it, he wrote on the kitchen cabinets, walls, floors, furniture, toys- if it was less then 2 1/2 feet from the ground, you better believe he drew his fabulous scribbles all over it.
Here’s an excerpt of a post I wrote back on August 23, 2009, CamCam’s 2nd birthday as a matter of fact.
Ages Three And Up
#5- Writing Utensils!!!- This is the worst! Nothing is safe from CamCam wielding a marker. There's always the tell-tale sign of him coming to me with his legs or arms covered in marker. Then I have to go on a hunt throughout the house to figure out what he drew on. He's draw on my couch, the hardwood floor in 3 separate rooms, the majority of the stairs, our dining room table, the exposed side of our kitchen pantry, the kitchen cabinets, carpet, windowsills, countless walls and I'm certain many other places and things I have yet to discover. I have no idea how he is getting at all these markers and pens and pencils. I keep them ALL very well put away. He must have a secret stash I have yet to discover.
I tried hiding all our writing utensils, but no matter how many I gathered, CamCam always found more. Over the past year, I’ve slowly started throwing them away. First went all the markers. Then the crayons. Now we are down to just a small amount of pens and 1 pencil that I keep in the kitchen.
Problem solved, right?
Wrong.
The other day I was in the kitchen cooking and looked over at our dining room table to see CamCam sitting at it with a pen, scribbling ALL over it ferociously. Big wide circles, around and around and around.
So for the official tally:
Drawing on things 1 year ago vs. Drawing on things now:
No Improvement
