Un-friggan'-beliebable!

What is it about a blank wall and kids?  When I come home in the afternoons I usually watch a show off the DVR while the kids play in the play room.  This lets me unwind and the girls get time to re-aclimate to being at home. Usually it works out great.  The girls play dress up together, build something with their legos, or play with their train set.  Not today.

Once Josh got home we all began doing our evening chores.  Jordan's job is to return all shoes to the shoe basket by the front door and return all her large toys to the toy box in the playroom.  I set up a trashbag and hand Emily trash to throw away.  I get all the smaller toys that the girls miss.  Josh usually makes dinner during this time.  While cleaning the back room this is what I found!

You can clearly see that she is getting good at the J and O of her name.  There is the beginnings of a R and D.  She likes writing E's since they are just straight lines. 

I'm thinking we should paint one wall with that chalk paint.

I actually felt a moment of pride when I saw that she had signed her "name" to her work.  I got down face to face with her and held her hands.

Mommy: "Jordan, did you know that it was wrong to draw on the walls."
Jordan: Big sigh. "Yes."
Mommy: "Why did you do it?"
Jordan: "Emily and I thought it would be colorful."
Mommy: "That doesn't make it okay.  If you feel that something is wrong and you might get into trouble...then you need to choose NOT to do it."
Jordan: "Okay."
Mommy: "Do you know what has to happen now?"
Jordan: "Yes.  You're going to throw my princess castle in the trash."
Mommy: "No.  Since you can't make good choices with your markers and crayons, then I have to take them away for a while."
Jordan: "Okay.  I understand."

I was more upset that she chose to do something even when she admittadly knew it was wrong than the coloring. 

Oh these little girls!