An Art Project Gone Wrong

Today was my day off, so I had a project in mind for Everett and me. We were going to make Daddy a present for Father's Day. I already had the project in mind, so we headed off to Hobby Lobby to gather supplies. After about an hour of indecisiveness and roaming the store, I found what I needed and headed off to a couple of other stores to get more odds and ends. Everett was definitely over it by noon and ready to eat lunch, so we headed home. After his nap, I was so excited and got all the things we needed ready in his bedroom. I laid out towels on the floor because I knew things were about to get messy. I also stripped him down to his diaper. The plan was to get his hand prints on a picture mat. I used acrylic paint because the "kid paint" wasn't the colors that I wanted. Well, I managed to get his prints the way I wanted them, but I also managed to let him jump out of my lap and leave lovely blue hand prints, three to be exact, on his carpet. Immediately I started to laugh. I think I was laughing so hard because if I weren't, I knew I would be crying. In a matter of seconds he managed to leave his prints on the carpet, and smear bright blue paint all over his body and his hair. I rushed him to his bathroom and luckily it came off very easily. I then scrubbed the carpet, which did not so much come out. I think I'll have to buy some heavy duty carpet cleaner, but for now there is a throw rug, rather oddly placed, to cover up all evidence. I am pleased with the end result of our project though.
Boys are funny. Everett manages to get into everything these days. A couple of days ago he got a ball point pen off our dining room table, crawled over to our leather couch, and made his mark there as well. I looked up how to get that out on Martha Stewart's website. She said to use perfume. Well thanks Martha. It got the pen out, but also discolored our couch in the process! Oh well, our home looks more and more like a child lives here. Eric chalks it up to creating memories. I am slowly getting there :)