While Daddy spent a week in Las Vegas, Grandpa came to visit us. When Grandpa visits, he always comes bearing gifts and surprisingly (sorry Dad :)), he does a great job picking things out. Madeline has a few new outfits that she loves and changed into immediately after opening them and some special Barbie dolls. Ryan also sported some new clothes and a bubble "thing" that he refused to part with once it was opened. Also, very popular with Ryan was a Curious George stamping kit. On Thursday morning, Ryan was eager to stamp again (we had stamped the previous night), but I told him we were getting ready to go to the museum so we would do it later. I placed the ink pad out of reach on the counter and gave him the foam stamps to carry around. Ryan followed me upstairs while I worked on the computer. After about 10 minutes I realized that he was being unusually quiet. I turned around (he was in the hallway and I was in my bedroom) and saw him playing with the stamps. THEN. . .I noticed the blue hue. The little stinker had gone downstairs, pushed a stool up to the counter, grabbed the ink pad and stamped Curious George stamps all over the upstairs, hallway carpet. And no, ink pad ink is not washable. I did my best to clean the carpet, but I think this fiasco will be forever etched in our minds since we have a permanent reminder of it.
