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I was cleaning the kitchen this morning and decided it was time to wipe down the fridge. Look for yourself:

McKenna has been practicing her smiley faces on our black fridge using Chalk Ink, one of the greatest inventions ever! I use it to make my shopping and to-do lists:

Generally getting to draw here keeps her occupied when I'm in the kitchen, and it can be wiped off pretty easily so she can start fresh each day. She often practices her name here as well, but clearly smiley faces were the them of this week. We're thrilled because she has not really seemed to like coloring in general.

The practice of letting our daughter doodle all over our fridge, however, has backfired. Twice. Once she took a permanent marker and wrote all over my mom's white fridge door. A few weeks later, she used crayon on her bedroom wall next to her bed. Both times, while we generally shook our heads in dismay and scrubbed like crazy, she cried in great distress because, in her words, we were erasing her "decorations." Oh, make that three time: she also "decorated" her pants with an ink pen.

Since then, though, she has learned to limit her decorations to the fridge, and we get to enjoy new colorful patterns and to watch her grow artistically.