Cave Painting.

Do you ever feel like you are living in a cave? No, not because you keep your lights off most of the time to conserve energy (like the energy it takes for you to get up and turn them on), or because all of the rooms in your house are painted in dark earth tones(they were that way when you bought the place); but because all over your house, on the walls, the back of cabinet doors, under cushions, on the washing machine... you find stick figure drawings with tiny, wobbly print next to it?

Is this a 4 year old stage? We have stashed away her pens, markers, crayons. She has limited access to glue, paint and colored pencils. And yet she still finds a way to make her mark.


"How is this?" you ask. "How can she make these marks with no...mark-ers?" Well I'll tell you. She's a resourceful little imp.


Yes. Lip balm. She used lip balm. Aaargh!

She did clean it off though. Without prompting.


A note: As much as it irritates me that she draws all over everything, I do appreciate that all of her pictures are so full of love and happiness. This particular mural was of her, Little Guy, and the two boys across the road...and love.