Fun with Markers

Believe it or not...this was the second time she did this in one day! And I'm out of the running for this year's mother-of-the-year. So Cade is sitting in the kitchen coloring with markers. He drops one. Brecken and I are in the family room and she crawls up to the kitchen. Unbeknownst to me, she finds the marker on the floor that Cade had dropped and goes around the corner where I can't see her. I'm thinking, "oh she's fine," because I knew the gate was up so she couldn't climb upstairs to the bedrooms. So a small amount of time passes by and I start walking up to the kitchen and all of a sudden Cade is getting down off the stool he had been sitting on and running towards Brecken. I see him grab something from her, I see it's a marker, I see her face...her perfect little baby mouth...is covered in marker. It's like she was trying to put on lipstick! Later, I realize she was just trying to eat it. She was so proud too. Our camera was charging so I had to take a photo with my cell phone. So I get her cleaned up (thankfully they were washable markers) and we continue on with our day.

Some time later in the day, I notice she is back over by the stairs messing with something. I go to her, and there she is, covered in marker again! What the...? I know we put the markers away! Then I realize she has something in her mouth...oh yeah, it's the tip of the marker that she had BIT off earlier. I never bothered to look at the marker the first time, we just put it away...had I done that, I might have noticed a chunk of it missing! Duh! This time I got a little worried that she may have swallowed some of it so I call the Poison Control Center (but not before I grab the now-charged camera and snap a picture) and she assured me that they were non-toxic and she would be fine, just had some pretty poop the next day! ;)