I took all 3 babies to a paint your own pottery place today. It's become tradition to take each baby to make a birthday plate on their first birthday. It's also tradition to have a hand print and foot print plate made when each baby is a couple weeks old.
Since Moose was still in the NICU on his 2 week birthday he didn't get plate made until I took Smudge for his birthday one today.
Smudge got his prints done first and then we did Moose's. As the employee was finishing up helping paint Moose's hands and stamp them, Smudge made a bee line for a very precarious looking stack of sushi platters. I dumped Moose in his bucket and rescued my wallet from at least 200 bucks of "they break it, you buy it" dish ware.
I returned to find a now sleeping Moose with tan paint covering his lips and a tiny tan colored thumb stuck in the corner of his mouth.
Horrified, I yelped "Moose Goose! Paint is not for eating!" The pottery employee looked over and calmly said "At least paint has fiber! I mean, it's gritty like fiber. Well, at least the bottle says it's non toxic!"
This new information helped to greatly ease my mind as I spent the next 10 minutes trying to gently pick what is probably Chinese manufactured, lead based paint from Moose's little lips.
