crayons

It's 89 degrees today-that's hot for here! Especially following several weeks of low seventies! I'm so grateful we invested in the new air conditioner. It works hard, but it feels sooooo good!!!!

I have a white rolling craft chest with several drawers in our office. The answering machine sits on top and it holds all sorts of neat things like pens, pencils, tape, post-it notes, staples, crayons, markers and batteries. It sits in its spot most of the time unnoticed. M noticed it today. In fact, she discovered she can open its drawers and better yet, she has discovered the crayon/marker drawer. It's like Christmas! For her, at least! She has become obsessed with getting the crayons out of the drawer! See, up until now, we've been stuck in the "crayons are yummy" phase and so I kept trying to keep her out of the drawer yesterday. This morning we picked up right where we left off and so I got some printer paper and showed her how to color again and got her a tupperware to put the crayons in knowing the box would be destroyed in no time. So all day, we've been taking crayons out, coloring briefly, and putting crayons back in. It's a very technical process, you see. But we already have fridge-worthy artwork to display. So now we're working on "crayons are for paper only". Wish us luck!