The kids were sitting at the table nicely drawing picture on paper. I folded 2 loads of laundry and came back to find this:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/mommajnine/100_4760.jpg

I didn't quit believe the story that the 2 year old did all the writing. BTW - The hall is about twice as long as this. The entire wall was covered and some in the next room.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/mommajnine/100_4759.jpg

The good news is that with some bleach and lots of scrubbing it all came off.

:drop: Not Sophie yet... (knock on wood!) So glad it came off!!!!

:lol: My now 5 yo dd has done this several times. The latest just a few weeks ago. I thought it was more of a 2 yo thing myself.

I know my 2 year old did most of it, but not the name. :lol:

Oh yeah I catch my kids doing it all the time. So much , that I have banned markers from the house and the crayons are kept on top of our refridgerato, until they can be used with supervision. But I can 't tell you how many pencil /pen drawings I have...thank goodness for Mr Clean Magic Eraser though :)

So glad it came off!

It's so funny when they "sign" their name and then deny that it was them who drew on the wall.

Oh yes...BTDT with beeswax crayons which are really difficult to get off...more so thatn crayolas. Two words: soft scrub. ;)

Oh, you are certainly NOT alone! It must be the season or something. I've never had a problem with writing in inappropriate places, but this spring :shake:

I know my 2 year old did most of it, but not the name. :lol:

When I found crayon scribbles a few weeks ago my 5 yo tried to blame it on her baby sister. :lol:

I could have written your post! My dd's have written their names on the wall too, and blamed it on the non-writing kid, lol. You'd think if they didn't want to get in trouble, they wouldn't sign their artwork!

BTDT

When hunter was about 2 he ripped off a huge chnk of wall paper that you could see as soon as you cam in the front door. I hated the wallpaper but ti looked better before he got a hold of it. He then colord in the same spot Callan has colored stuff with sharpie more than once :shake:

Oh yeah I catch my kids doing it all the time. So much , that I have banned markers from the house and the crayons are kept on top of our refridgerato, until they can be used with supervision. But I can 't tell you how many pencil /pen drawings I have...thank goodness for Mr Clean Magic Eraser though :)

So glad it came off!

I was just gonna say.....mr. clean magic eraser......i should buy stock..lol

All my kids have gone on coloring "sprees" labeling everything with their name when they first figure out how to write it. And they can never understand how we KNOW it was them that did it :lol:

Yep - I am a Mr. Clean magic eraser gal myself too. Usually I am all about the crunchiest most earth friendly cleaning, but nothing seems to get crayon off the wall like it can without taking the paint with it. I just wear gloves and wipe it down with lots of water when I am done. (they have formaldahyde in them. yuck. but a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do...)

Yep - I am a Mr. Clean magic eraser gal myself too. Usually I am all about the crunchiest most earth friendly cleaning, but nothing seems to get crayon off the wall like it can without taking the paint with it. I just wear gloves and wipe it down with lots of water when I am done. (they have formaldahyde in them. yuck. but a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do...)
This is me too. Mr Clean works really well and its staying even with me switching all of our other cleaners over to natural products. My kids have done it more times than I care to admit. Isabelle seems to be over it until she joins Alex. Great!

If Dani can find any writing instrument anywhere in the house, it ends up being used on her bedroom walls - pens, pencils, markers, crayons, chalk, Mom's makeup :shake:

When its time to clean the bedrooms, I know to grab a Mr Clean and head in there with it...just wait until she can write her name :rolleyes:

Been there, actually still there :lol: just scribbles here no names, lol. Dd took a sharpie to the footboard of my bed, she went up and down at least twice. I haven't been able to get it all off, the sharpie soaked into the wood:(.

I agree, invest in a Mr. Clean eraser, those suckers will get almost anything off your walls and furniture (except sharpie from some types of wood:D)

This is me too. Mr Clean works really well and its staying even with me switching all of our other cleaners over to natural products. My kids have done it more times than I care to admit. Isabelle seems to be over it until she joins Alex. Great!

Now, why'd I know you were going to post on this thread, Heather? ;) :lol:

Now, why'd I know you were going to post on this thread, Heather? ;) :lol:
Gee, I don't know why you would think I would need to answer this thread? I'm such an expert in this field and I don't want to be.


Alex Pam'd my kitchen floor yesterday morning. DH and I were sleeping in and I came down and the tile in the kitchen was kind of slippery and shiny. I verified that all of the soap was in the correct position. Then I found a large can of Pam, empty, in the bathroom. UGH. I've mopped it 3x and I'm still slipping on it. I've tried dish soap, floor cleaner, my mother suggested vinegar, but that would make my whole house smell like a salad. I don't even use Pam except for grilling.

Mine did the Pam spray too. :shake: I used vinegar to cut it. It worked. :)

This sounds like my house! My ds had gotten better until he saw his little sister engaging in the above named crime :lol: ! I have a wall that I haven't cleaned because I am going to paint it instead.

When we moved in our house a year ago, we had this yellow gingham wall paper in dd's room. Matches perfect with her nursery stuff. Well we might have half of the paper left on the walls!

My kids like to squirt things on the floors too. But let's not even go there!

Mine did the Pam spray too. :shake: I used vinegar to cut it. It worked. :)

:bow: Wow, that vingear worked really well. Luckily the easter bunny brought playsilks this year so we had lots of vinegar. Thanks for the btdt advice!

Your 2 yo spelled "Zane" really well! ;) Mine have done that. All of them did it AFTER I thought they were really old enough that it was no longer a worry. :rolleyes: Magic erasers are my friend. :p

Heather~omg, PAM??? That's too funny :lol:, Em hasn't discovered the joy and fun of Pam yet, thank god. That reminds me of one of the stories my mom tells about me and my partner in crime, Wyatt (my mom's bestfriends son). I was 2 or 3 and he was 3 or 4, both of our dads were out on the ship and my mom and Bev had gone out the night before. Wyatt and I got up and emptied the entire fridge, and all the cabinets we could reach onto the kitchen floor. Milk, cereal, eggs, syrup, flour, sugar, juice, etc all on the kitchen floor. They had to use shovels to get it all out :lol: :shake: :drop:. I was a wild child:D

I'm too embarassed to tell you what all Emma got into in the last week, I swear to hear it all really sounds like I never watch my kid, lol, she was so destructive.

Heather~omg, PAM??? That's too funny :lol:, Em hasn't discovered the joy and fun of Pam yet, thank god. That reminds me of one of the stories my mom tells about me and my partner in crime, Wyatt (my mom's bestfriends son). I was 2 or 3 and he was 3 or 4, both of our dads were out on the ship and my mom and Bev had gone out the night before. Wyatt and I got up and emptied the entire fridge, and all the cabinets we could reach onto the kitchen floor. Milk, cereal, eggs, syrup, flour, sugar, juice, etc all on the kitchen floor. They had to use shovels to get it all out :lol: :shake: :drop:. I was a wild child:D

I'm too embarassed to tell you what all Emma got into in the last week, I swear to hear it all really sounds like I never watch my kid, lol, she was so destructive.
I was a good child. I don't know where she came from, but she keeps me on my feet. Oh I watch her alright.....watch her chase after the cat through the whole house with a full bottle of syrup, trying to coat the cat. Or when she painted herself blue....completely blue. Poor Ellie has this hand drawn picture of a little girl (in a Munki Munki dress I've been informed) on her door, with a slash drawn over her. Guess whose art kit she got into? Just after Easter she and her sisters were drawing and glittering in the dining room. She would come running into the room to show me her "pretty" pictures. Then she brought me the poor dog and said, "He so pretty". Yep, he sparkled like a diamond.

Yep - I am a Mr. Clean magic eraser gal myself too. Usually I am all about the crunchiest most earth friendly cleaning, but nothing seems to get crayon off the wall like it can without taking the paint with it. I just wear gloves and wipe it down with lots of water when I am done. (they have formaldahyde in them. yuck. but a gals gotta do what a gals gotta do...)

Yep, 2 products i won't convert is Soft Scrub and Magic Eraser, everything else is cleaned with my own concocution ;) Ususally Dr B and TTO;)

LOL! When I moved out of the place I was living in when ds was two, we had to repaint, cause every available surface had been soooo scribbled on that we couldn't keep up with it all....he even climbed on top of dressers and went to town there, too!

FTR, wd40 is a wonder for crayon removal...

Oh, and spraying stuff....once we were staying at the ILs for a bit, and ds, almost 2, somehow got ahold of a spray bottle filled with half bleach, half water, that MIL used for disinfecting :drop: He didn't hurt himself any; just MILs fancy hand painted, hand finished walls, done herself (she is amazingly talented)...they had streaks running down them where the sprayed on bleach dripped...oy..


Murali

:lol:
My favorite wall art was drawn by my 6 yo. She had this happy little spring picture with flowers and birdies...her name of course at the bottom. On the bathroom wall, right next to the toilet (she'd been camped out there for a while, I really thought she was ummm, using the toilet, lol). Guests used to comment on it (I finally got it off enough to repaint the bathroom).

ETA--I'm still waiting for them to outgrow this phase. My 8 yo was unpacking books when we moved here last fall...she labeled the new Ikea bookshelves w/ a red sharpie by book type, LOL.

Camryn had lots of masterpieces like that in our apartment. DId you know regular white toothpaste gets crayon marks out ? I scrubbed the days before we moved out of the apartment (no point cleaning up earlier and having to do it again lol), and my fingers were sore from all that scrubbing..... And we still had toothpaste left to brush out teeth with lol.....


But maybe there's something in the air or the water. The past week my kids have being driving me crazy with the stuff they've been up to. They never get up to mischief otherwise so I guess it was about time. I had a whole bathroom and dining table to clean cos they mixed water with red playdough and the sticky gooey mess was everywhere............yuk......I couldn't believe it was my house & my kids :drop: And yesterday my 5 1/2 y.o was chewing the corner of a book ??? What is up .....


Monica

I would have thought we were way past that since she's 7, but I have found some little art works here and there where they weren't supposed to be.

Jac..not yet, but apparently, my kids are "late bloomers" in that area. His thing is to stick stickers EVERYWHERE.

YES!!!

The worst was when my kids (4 & 2 at the time) wrote on their bedroom walls with DRY ERASE MARKER. Nothing gets that off- believe me, I tried it all. And even better, when you paint over the dry erase marker, it bleeds through the paint!!! *argh*

ah, good times.... :D

My 3 yo and 6 yo are in ca-hoots in this department. Not too much drawing on the walls but they we horrenous dumpers! Everything they could find behind the bed. I just knew b/c their room would smell unusually herb-y then I put those up they moved on to the fridge and then to my lotion and then the toothpaste! Most of the time it was a concotion of things and you would swear the 3 yo was in the room with you the whole time we were even going to set up a camera. It lasted for about 6 mo :sob: then the 3 yo got upset b/c we called her the dumper and stopped sheeeew :rolleyes: ketchup lotion and dried thyme really smells and is hard to clean up, blick!