Dear Erin,
Your mom and dad are very, very happy that you have taken such a liking to coloring. We are thrilled that you have found a little niche for yourself, and you are really very talented!
We are proud that you can now hold the crayon, pencil, marker (sometimes the permanent kind) or pen in the proper way!
We warmly welcome that fact that you enjoy coloring for hours each day, making lovely works of art. It does wonders for your fine-motor develepment. Trust us, we very much want to encourage you in your endeavours!
But there is only one tiny problem.....you seem to forget WHERE to color. Remember, we color on PAPER, not walls, refrigerators, cabinets or toys :). For as much as your beautiful works of art warm our hearts, please, please stop coloring on our stuff. And one more thing...when you are coloring on a wall, and we call from the other room for you to stop, please do so. You are caught, red-handed! Rather than coloring faster and faster, so as to make the most damage in the moments it takes for us to get to you to remove the writing device out of your sticky little paw, just stop. And no giggling; it only makes matters worse.
Thank you,
Your Loving Parents (who do not like their new pastime of scrubbing walls)
PS. I am off to remove this...
And this....
And this......
