They Are Lucky They Are Cute
April 29, 2010
I went outside this afternoon and saw this scene.
I didn’t do it, Mom.
Notice her paint covered hand hanging at her side.
That isn’t my hand print. That hand doesn’t even have a thumb!
Who doesn’t have a thumb that could have done this?
Well, I don’t know everything!
Posted by Chris @ 5:34 pm
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It’s soap and they were washing the car, right?
April 29th, 2010 at 5:55 pmOh my! That’s too cute about the thumb. What a quick thinker you have. I hope that was washable paint.
April 29th, 2010 at 6:21 pmhaha too cute!
Love Miles answer, that’d stump anyone!
April 29th, 2010 at 6:21 pmNotme does everything at our house and then the little bugger leaves evidence all over the boys to get them in trouble. I see he’s visiting you…
April 29th, 2010 at 6:43 pmYep, it’s my favorite saying too…”good thing they are so cute.”
April 29th, 2010 at 7:14 pmYou’re lucky. My friend walked out of her house this week to find her daughter had etched a drawing into the hood of her car with a rock. About the size of your kids’ painting, in other words — HUGE!
April 29th, 2010 at 7:31 pmgiggle giggle was my first thought and then i said thats not how i would act if it were my car and my kids. Ok i am still grinning as i look at 2nd photo (smirk smirk)
on a more mature note did it come off?
April 29th, 2010 at 8:25 pmWell maybe she was just trying to wipe off what someone else did. Maybe…….
April 29th, 2010 at 8:48 pmDon’t know that I could have thought of that excuse at her age either.
And they are cute! Cute will get you through a lot in life.
you and the dalai lama should hang out. not sure why this post makes me think that.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:05 pmPlease tell me that’s not paint!
I like her style…..deny everything.
Lori
April 29th, 2010 at 9:32 pmHeh. I love kids’ creative techniques of hiding their ways.
Now, did the paint come off?!
April 29th, 2010 at 9:59 pmThis reminds me of a couple I know, whose child when he was about 6 - 7 years old was scootching by their car in the garage while carrying a hammer and accidentally dinged the car. It made such a dimple that he tried it again on purpose, about 200 more times. My husband is laughing as we remember Susan and Tim telling this story. Of course, they were not laughing at the time as their car was less than a month old.
April 29th, 2010 at 10:01 pmNo way! I cannot wait to hear the sotry behind these pics
April 29th, 2010 at 11:00 pmthat was supposed to say story of course … oops
April 29th, 2010 at 11:01 pmBless their little hearts…
April 29th, 2010 at 11:52 pmI wonder did they deliberately leave thumbless handprints so they could claim it was some malformed passing prankster that decorated the car and they were just trying to stop him!?
My kids would totally do that, and then I would be bound by my oath to never accuse them of lying without proof and so would have to cut off one of their thumbs. Proof- ha!
April 30th, 2010 at 6:02 amOMG!!! Did you get it off?!
April 30th, 2010 at 7:30 amI love the evidence being right there and they still insist it wasn’t them. Love it.
April 30th, 2010 at 9:06 amUm, yeah - you have to tell us the end of that story - did you get it off?
(Don’t tell us the middle part, about how your head spun around in circles . . . oh, no, that’s just what mine would have done!)
April 30th, 2010 at 9:25 amThree guesses whose idea it was…
April 30th, 2010 at 9:30 amI REALLY want to know if you were able to get it off! They are so adorable…I don’t think I could be mad.
April 30th, 2010 at 10:09 amOne of the dearest people in my life was born with no thumbs -was he visiting in your parts of Texas?
They are too funny, and oh SO clever!
April 30th, 2010 at 10:51 amI love the lies they come up with, they are so not-thought-out, it is hard to not laugh! Once I finally told a four-year-old that he would have to go to confession and see their priest if he kept lying to me. That finally did it!
April 30th, 2010 at 11:46 amTell them you’re taking the car down to the FBI to have the fingerprints put on file, and now they must NEVER do anything wrong again or they will be put in prison because the cops will already have their fingerprints and be able to prove “who did it”.
Let me know how that works out. I have a grandson I’d like to try that on in a couple of years when he’s old enough to do some creative destruction, but if your kids don’t fall for it I’ll skip it.
April 30th, 2010 at 2:46 pmI’ve learned to live by my husband’s philosophy (he’s one of 7) “Never purchase anything valuable that you don’t mind being destroyed as long as you have children living at home” I could see my kids “accidently” doing this. My son did draw a picture on my car with a rock at once…Ahhhh… good thing he was cute at the time.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:40 pmPs…maybe it was supposed to be a Mother’s day gift. The handprints would be great in a frame.
April 30th, 2010 at 4:42 pmMy then 4 or 5 yr old daughter got an idea from Spy Kids and went around the house with nail polish making marks. A trail or something. Piano, TV, kitchen table, etc. She, at 12, still remembers and trys to explain why she did it but I still don’t get it. I did laugh though. Then and now.
May 1st, 2010 at 12:04 pmMy almost seven y/o wrote his name in permanent marker on the headliner inside the back of my van…you know right over his seat….when I found it(months later, I assume) because you know I was accidentally looking up there when I was all contorted in there trying to install the new baby seat.
May 1st, 2010 at 11:56 pmAfter school that afternoon I asked him about it and he says, “yeah T wanted to see how to write my name so I telled him and he writed it, I don’t like GREEN MARKER mama.”
Ummmm problem wiht that is we can’t get T to write his name why the #$%Y#&%^ would he be writing YOURS????
Steff
Don’t you remember the picture you posted of the “wash me” car? Well…maybe this is the 5-7 year old version of “wash me”.
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:54 pmthere’s a hand up there with eight fingers. Must have been Ida Know - that kid is crazy looking with all those fingers
May 5th, 2010 at 12:06 am