I was writing at my desk this morning, while The Ambassador dragged out every toy, book and piece of paper in his area of my office. It's fine. I'm used to that. Then I heard, "Squeak, squeak, squeak" and turned to see him drawing on my office window with a crayon.
Over the past few days, this has become a new thing with The Ambassador, and it's pretty easy to circumvent by giving him more paper. Today was different.
ME: Do not draw on my window! You have paper on your table. Right there! (POINTS)
HIM: No, NO PAPER!!
ME: Yes, on the paper. Not on the window.
HIM: (QUICKLY THROWING ALL THE PAPER OFF HIS TABLE) NO! No mo' paper!! All gone. Dwaw! (TURN BACK TO WINDOW, POISED TO BEGIN AGAIN)
ME: No drawing on the window. Stop!
HIM: (TURNS BACK TO ME, CLEARLY EXASPERATED AND IMPATIENT) Momma, no. No, Momma. No more paper on da tabow, Momma. All gone. Dwaw!
The message was clear. He threw the paper on the floor, then claimed to be all out of paper, therefore where else was he to draw, but on the window? I have to give him credit. That's not a bad strategy. You know, if I was legally blind. Or incapable of putting two thoughts together. I think he needs a whiteboard. After all, I spent 15 years of my professional life barely able to form cohesive concepts without one, why would I expect him to work otherwise?
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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A kids..one day it's crayons, the next they are demanding a protractor.
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Sounds like he is shaping up to become Amanda C. Maybe she has an extra whiteboard for you...
The boy would like some artistic freedom, what's wrong with that? Geez!
I hope he will dig a dry erase board - Samantha's magnetic board doubles as one, but we've never told her that. I prefer to stifle my kids' creativity altogether, it uses fewer paper towels.
And I get excited when my kid strings two words together.
The Ambassador amazes me.
Maybe he is the next picasso. You might want to roll with it. I mean how important are windows, anyway :)
At his young age, he's already using logic to argue the validity of your point. And then he defies you to dispute his logic.
You're in trouble. ;-)
I love to listen/watch little kids' use their own brand of logic, it is so funny!
Three words? Crayola Color Wonder.
@ Lorrie -- *gasp* a protractor! Do they still use those? Because as I recall, you have to put a pencil in them, and I haven't seen a pencil in about five years.
@ Lori -- Maybe I should send him to her for a seminar.
@ Cathy -- You'd think I'd consider that, given that I'm out of paper towels.
@ Lori -- It is exciting initially, but mine chatters non-stop now and every other word is "Momma". I'm definitely teaching the next kid "Papa" first.
@ ConverseMomma -- A woman after my own heart. You know, I considered letting him draw on them. They're really easy to clean off. But I figured I had to draw the line somewhere, and eliminating all vertical surfaces is easier than saying "You can write on windows, but not on the fireplace".
@ Terri -- I think he's smarter than I am. As long as he doesn't figure that out for a while, I'm safe.
@ The Microblogologist -- I just dig your name so much that you write anything you want on my blog. Thanks for stopping by!
@ Maria -- We tried those months ago. But he draws 23 hours a day, and he draws primarily in Blue's Clues notebooks, so the CW pens were a source of extreme frustration for him. I feel really lucky that this is his first foray into non-paper coloring -- most kids get to that before they're 2, right? Wait... is my kid slow?
Wipe boards may be on sale with all the Back to School stuff.
The Ambassador can draw on my windows anytime! He's a smart little whipper snapper...
Lucky for you it sounds like Ambassador is going to be a mellow non-confrontational sort, just like his mama.. OOOHHH WAIT oh second thought-- girl.. you have a LONG FABULOUS ride ahead of you!
And what the hecks wrong with window markerS?
I think he needs his own blog.
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