This Happened

I know. This is one of those pictures that you get in email forwards and you think, "What idiot leaves out paint like that and then doesn't supervise their children?" Well, I'll tell you how this goes down. It only took about 90 seconds and paint was literally everywhere. Thank goodness we were pulling up the carpet anyways.

Mckenzee and I were painting in our newly enclosed playroom. Chris was painting the new wall outside the room. Riley was watching Diego in our bedroom. Chris asked me to come out and look at his wall. I took two steps outside the room and I could still see my paint tray where Mckenzee was happily dipping her paintbrush and painting the wall like a big girl. About that time Riley walked by me and into the new room. Again, I can see the paint tray with the wet paint so I am not worried.

After I give Chris my verdict on his painting I walked back into the room to find Riley dipping his arms into the open paint can we forgot about and slinging paint everywhere. It was all over the carpet, all over the computer and desk and of course all over him and yes, he decided to taste it. All I could say was, "Oh my gosh!" Chris rushed in and scooped him up and took him straight to the bathtub, where we did pause to commemorate the nightmare with a photo.

I cleaned the boy and Chris cleaned the furniture. The clothes and carpet could not be saved. Thankfully, this was FreshAire paint so I was not AS worried as I could have been if it had been something else. The label says Good for Your Family and even though i am sure that doesn't mean you should feed it to your kids I am thinking he won't keel over.

It got worse before it got better because he got it in his hair in his fight to not get cleaned up and when we were done his bath water was completely green so he had to be rinsed with new water.

There's a preview of our new paint color for you. Hope you enjoyed the tale.