Gilded toilet

So far in our adventures in parenthood we have been fairly lucky. No real "messes" as far as toddler creativity goes. That is until Friday night.

Jon and I had some friends over for dinner and an impromptu "play date". They have a little girl, Grace, who was three in January that Xander enjoys playing with. The two of them were playing well together and were moving between the living room and Xander's room. We (being all of the adults) started to play a game in the living room. The kids disappeared and we assumed they were in Xander's room playing. I hadn't really noticed how quiet they were being (a rare occassion for our little guy) until I heard the toilet lid slam down. I thought "this can't be good". Now, I do have to give them the benefit of the doubt, Grace is potty trained and can go to the bathroom by herself. I assumed that might be what they were doing, I was wrong!

I checked the bathroom and there was no one there, I thought it was strange, then I thought I'd better check the master bathroom. Our bedroom light had been off and Xander rarely ventures in there if the lights aren't on. Sure enough there were the two of them, in the master bathroom, covered from head to toe in some type of metallic gold substance! Xander was proudly "painting" the toilet with it. I looked around the room only to realize, they had gotten into a few scrapbooking supplies that had been in our bedroom closet. They removed the gold metallic ink pad from it's base and smeared gold fingerprints ALL OVER the room. The dresser was covered, the walls were covered, the television screen was covered, the light switch plates were covered - all making a neat path into the bathroom.

That wouldn't have been SO awfully if Xander hadn't taken it upon himself to "baptize" the pad in the toilet, at that point it was dripping wet making a wonderful paintbrush. When I arrived they had closed the toilet and were "painting" the tank and toilet seat. the dad's came in and took the kids out to clean them up and I started scrubbing. Amazingly enough it wiped right off of the dresser and walls. I cleaned up the toilet and thought I should check under the seat. When I lifted the lid, all of the water in the toilet had turned to gold, it literally looked like liquid gold and it was ALL OVER the bowl. I scrubbed and scrubbed and eventually got most of it off.

OH, what an experience. Come to find out it wasn't Xander that was the curious one but Grace and Xander and come and found her amid the art supplies and the two of them continued their "project" in the bathroom. Oh, what a night, I think I felt the worst about Grace's pants. They were covered in gold ink. I just hope it washes out!!!