YIKES!!!

I was wrapping presents at the table the other day and Lila was sitting there "helping" me. At some point she found something else she would rather do and was off. I promise it was less than five minutes later when she came back to the kitchen table and said, "Oh Mommy, I a mess!" This is never a good sign so I took a deep breath and turned to look at her. A little smurf was looking back at me handing me the blue permanent marker I was using to write my gift tags with. She had colored all over herself, lifted up her shirt to color on her tummy, pulled up her pants to draw all over the legs, the girl even sat down so she could color the bottoms of her feet blue. Now this could have just been a funny story to call and tell Daddy while Lila was in the bath tub but I know my daughter and her love of markers so I immediately knew she had colored on more than all her body parts.

She led me into the living room where it didn't take but a second to see our beautiful, custom leather chair that can now only be described as Lila so truthfully told "A MESS" I've tried everything rubbing alcohol, hair spray, nail polish remover, the magic eraser, suntan lotion, cooking oil, anything they listed on the internet to save our chair and nothing has removed the marker, the leather dye yes, but not the marker. Any suggestions out there? I guess our last option is to have someone come to the house to restore, redye, whatever they do short of a miracle to get the chair back to pre-Lila condition. I'm calling the guy soon so if you have any suggestions hurry up with them!! The poor chair has been a good chair and although Lila has fallen out of it once or twice it didn't deserve this retaliation from a two year old!!

Too bad I didn't get a picture of the smurf... I was just not finding the humor in the moment just then!