balloon fun!

D and A helped me to decorate the kitchen for C's birthday (I ALWAYS put up streamers and balloons for them on their special day!) Now,... of course the kids had to play with the balloons,... i fully expect that, and always will blow up more than i plan on using - or allow the kids to blow up more than we need. Then, i send them all downstairs to play with them.

Well,... somehow, E's balloon ended up getting decorated with marker - and you know how marker just will NOT stay on the balloon, and ends up getting EVERYWHERE! Somehow (possibly with a little assistance from the older siblings :-), E ended up chewing on and rubbing his marker-ed balloon all over his face and arms. Even his TEETH were black! He was all-right with the result until I picked him up to show him what he looked like in the mirror - then he started whimpering and almost crying because he thought he was so 'scary.' His reaction was so drastic that D and I were just cracking up laughing at him; i felt kinda bad laughing so hard when he was next to tears - but he was just hilarious! We tossed him in the tub, and he was much happier after getting clean again.