OT- My daughter

Expect a Saturday delivery from Federal Express before 10am. Weight will be about 42 lbs. Contents will contain one light brown little girl, age 5, with blue ink smeared all over her face, arms and legs. She will kinda look like Smurfette. She is being deported from Aberdeen, MD this evening for the following reasons: 1. Waking during the middle of the night. 2. Taking the bench next to the desk and taking it into her sister's room. 3. Using the bench to climb up into her sister's closet while her sister slept. 4. Taking down from the top shelf of her sister's closet an ink-based Paint set that her sister received as a birthday present. 5. Upon playing w/the paint, she smeared it all over herself and spilled it all over the carpet in her sister's room - ruining the carpet. 6. After realizing that she made a mess, she took the bench into the hallway and grabbed my new WHITE towels and proceeded to rub the towels over top of the mess on the carpet and herself. 7. Upon realizing that the water was not cleaning it up, she got the foam hand soap from the bathroom (it's a liquid) and dumped that out onto the carpet. 8. After a while she gave up and laid another clean towel on the mess as to cover up so that we would NOT notice!! 9. After closer inspection, their is also a mess along the bathroom walls and in the hallway that leads to the bathroom. Okay seriously now... have you ever seen the movie Terms of Endearment? Do you remember the scene where the mom wants the kids to come help her chop up the roses, so she sends the nanny to get them... well the nanny has to unstrap the son from some type of harness that holds him to the bed. I WANT ONE OF THOSE. I have no idea where this acting out is coming from. She is such a stubborn strong willed child!! Oh yeah I forgot that about her punishment. Right now, she has no TV or radio in her room. Daddy took those out of her room. She will also be forced to stay in her room ALL WEEKEND except to come out of her room for meals and to go to the bathroom. She's also is grounded from participating in movie night tonight. I'm afraid that if I physically get my hands on her, I'm going to hurt her. The only way I could get the mess of her was with straight BLEACH. I didn't want to use bleach on her face, so those markings are still there!! The bleach turned the ink to a light purple - making it look like bruises. When we got to daycare this morning, I had to pull the Director into the bathroom to show her exactly what Makenna had done. It literally looks like we beat her. Thought you all could use a laugh!!! Susan

The movie is Mommy Dearest not Terms of Endearment. OOOPS.. Susan

I will trade you two small poodles. Last night I had to sit on the floor and play ball for 2 hours plus when I went to sleep both of them wanted to cram up against me. They had the whole bed and I had a few inches.

Oh Susan, How exasperating ... you can send her to Houston for awhile. God bless, Jen

Ahhhh the joys of motherhood!! Take pictures now so you can embarrass her later!! Do you have a membership at the Y? I wonder if the strong amounts of clorine in the pool would remove any of the ink? Just a thought. Dawn

Susan~ Thanks for sharing that this morning! That was soo funny Kay

Boy Susan does she sound like my little girl!! I remember not toolong ago (abuot a year ago) we had laminate wood floors installed in our house to help it sell. Well I woke up to a chocolate floor the very next day. Nati woke in the middle of the night and got a bottle of chocolate syrup out of the fridge and squirted it all over my brand new floor, and herself. She too tried to cover up the mess, but with her blanket from her room. I guess all the hard work wiped her out so she ended up falling asleep right in the middle of the mess!!! I thought about the choking and tying her up but I figured if she went to tthat much trouble to make a mess in my entire living room and dining room, and tried to clean it that she had probably learned her lesson. I found out later that was not the case...she also found a fascination with scissors and climbed to the top of my bathroom vanity and proceeded to go into her room and cut her sisters hair while she was sleeping, it wasnt just a trim either, she cut probably 6 inches off one side of my daughters hair and almost all of it off the back of her head!! I think that our kids would probably be best of friends!! Just remember this moment and chalk it up to being tested as to how strong we really are as mothers. I look back now and crack up at some of the things she has done, and is still doing, but I love her as I know you love yours. Laugh now and appreciate all the comedy that she gives to you!! They may end up being the most serious of people as adults!!! Thanks for the laugh and the memories!! Take care, Steph

Oh I am so sorry, it could have been so funny if it wasn't for the carpet. I hate to make it worse, but they don't get better. Kids brains are defective. The right side doesn't talk to the left side. If you ask them why they did something, they will answer truthfully, they don't know, because their brains don't work right. The punishment threat doens't work for the same reason. And that all doesn't change until they are grown up. I will tell you when I find out that age, mine are 20 and 21, not there yet. My kids did the perm. marker on the walls, cutting of sisters hair, in chunks to the scalp, sister stabing brother in hand with sissors, and many other things I have since blocked from my memory. But they are made so cute, you can't take them out and drown them.

Ok---- I lovelovelove this story--what a fabulous girl! I, too, have a little adventurer (barely 2---so thanks for the preview . Our issue at this time is that my Little Madam thinks she is totally potty trained (she's not) and immediately removes her diaper when soiled and "cleans up for mommy". I often find 'milk duds' and 'tootsie rolls' wrapped in TP around the house. She also takes her diaper off in the crib and then soils it necesitating (sp?)a midnight change of sheets, jams and a new diaper. No zipper or pjs created by man can foil her. We are working on the potty training, I guess I'm just too slow a teacher for her liking. It's true what they say: children are your greatest joy and greatest sorrow! Cathy