Because when you are two

It's hard to believe that Anna's 2 already. Your article made me smaile.
Luckily my son stuck to paper for his drawings but my friends 2 girls both loved to draw on walls.

Audrey did that exact same thing a few days ago. Markers on her legs and belly the first time and then a couple hours later, pretty blue highlighter on her left arm. No time for baths so we used a baby wipe. Thankfully we only have Washable Crayola markers. :) Man, two year olds are fun!

ohmygoodness! this was totally us this week (my youngest is 16 months)...and the carpet took some of the beating too!

LOL! Do you think some of this was inspired by all the people we see these days with body tattoos?

Oh yes! Our home has seen the same. All pens, crayons, and markers now live on top of the fridge out of reach. My two girls (3 1/2 and 21 months) are taggers.

Rubbing alcohol takes even permanent markers right off. My 23 year old daughter painted her fingernails, toenails, and parts of her body with a black sharpie when she was three. Could not scrub enough to get it off until my neighbor told me about the rubbing alcohol. She was always a little artist, today she works in the movie business still creating art. Love that girly of yours, she seems so full of life, reminds me of mine.

When my son did this around the same age all I could think was "thank goodness he didn't draw on the walls and the couch!". We now keep all marking objects at Mummy/Daddy only height so everything is properly supervised!

I drew on my husband last week! We were all in the kitchen and he was complaining about how big his stomach is getting and was pulling it in and pushing it out so I grabbed a sharpie and drew a face on it! No idea why but it amused us, our daughter and son-in-law who were there too :) Our youngest used to write on everything - windowsills, walls etc. She would deny it but as she wrote her own name (complete with the typical left-handers reverse e) every time it was a little hard to believe her denials!!!

Keep her away from the scissors! My daughter did this (and still does at almost 5 yrs old) all the time. At least it washes off.

I can totally relate to this - my nearly 2yo keeps using himself as as canvas. (I prefer this option to his using the carpet though!)

I remember when my daughter was two (she is now 35) decided to
"shampoo" her hair using a whole jar of Vaseline. I forgot how many time I had to wash her hair before it came out. The joys of parenting!

Ha! My 13-yr-old STILL likes to draw on herself. Once an artist, always an artist....

You've got to love body art! My son insisted on decorating his face (washable marker) one time last year for a playdate, so I let him. He was 5. They are only young once. Maybe if he is allowed to do what he wants with body art now, he won't want a tattoo when he's older. Ha! Ha!

My oldest, who is now 16, coloured on his face and hands, his pyjamas and some of my scrapbooking stuff when he was about 2 1/2. When he was in elementary school, he was reading the Captain Underpants books and there's a talking toilet in there somewhere. Guess what he did to our toilet?! Drew a face on it! More recently than those two incidents...in fact February of this year when he was 15!...he decided some fruit in our kitchen needed faces on them. We had very smiley oranges and bananas that day!! All of this artistic prowess was done with a black Sharpie. I'm so proud!!

Sounds like what my 3 year old has been doing around here lately. If she doesn't have markers....she uses crayons on her finger & toes nails. And when she gets bored with drawing on herself, she gets the walls, floors, & furniture. Now we just hide the markers....lol

I had a pack of markers when my son was little (a freebie from somewhere?? I didn't buy them...) that were specifically for writing on skin. I think they were being marketed to teens as temporary tatoo art. I let my son try them. They did NOT wash off, as promised on the label. But, still, kind of a fun idea. Not hard to see where the inspiration for this comes from. Can't go anywhere without seeing art on skin. I wonder if putting some lotion on the skin first, then using an appropriate, nontoxic pen might work. Had a visiting 2yo doodle on my furniture once. Isn't it fun to drop everything to do emergency cleanups? Not on the day's to do list.

Ha! Looks like she has been watching to much LA Ink. So cute. This to shall pass. Treasure the memories. =]

Some things you can only laugh at! Especially when the actual scene has faded and all that is left is the memory... :)

LOL I remember my son coloring his face with a blue crayola marker . . . not trying to be artistic, but trying to look like his Jamacian best friend! I had a great laugh over that one. My only question was, why the blue marker and not the black one???

My granddaughter did that a few times and then expanded her 'drawing' to include the living room carpet! The creativity came to a screeching halt for a while. LOL My youngest daughter pretty much colored her face with lipstick one time and boy did we have to scrub to get all of that off!