The good, bad and Ugly of learning to write your name!

Recently, Ezra has been a kick about writing his name. I love it! I work with him on it using hand over hand, and then, he also practices on his own. Well, remember the story about the green crayon on our upstairs couch?? Recap: Ezra needed paper to write his name, didn't see any, so he chose to use the couch as his pallet.

Well, last night, he was up a little later than usual because he took a three hour nap. He was in his bathroom going to the bathroom, sitting in the dark. I was looking up something on the computer, waiting for him to be done so we could finish up and get to bed. I hear him say, "all done, mommy." This is my cue to come "help" him. As I walk in the bathroom and flip on the light, I see him sitting on the toilet covered in black marker!! It is on his cheeks, hands, arms and legs! I asked him what he was doing, and of course, his response is, "writing my name". I asked him if we write on ourselves and he says "no" to which I reply, "then why do you have marker all over you?" He gives me this look, like I should know why, and says, "but mom, I couldn't find any paper!" Okay, apparently I need to keep MORE PAPER out, but come on! I love that he is interested in writing his name, but would LOVE IT even more, if it was in the right place. That boy. Gotta love him. He thought he was in big trouble so he didn't want to come out of the bathroom to show Brent. I just laughed. He got a wash cloth and started cleaning it off. Luckily, it was a dry-erase marker so it came off very easy! Hopefully we will have more "practice" with writing his name, but I would like it to be on paper!

Just a glimpse of the marker EVERYWHERE

Such a big boy, washing it off by himself