The Muhlestein Family

Matthew is taking pink too far.

August 31st, 2008

Having all boys for the last 8 years has taken it’s toll on the color scheme of our house. It was blue. With Ally’s arrival, we’ve finally introduced a bit of pink into the mix. Matthew must have got the pink bug too, he’s taken it upon himself to help bring even more pink into our household. Here are a few of the things that Matthew has helped to turn pink.

• The office carpet.

  Last week while trying to get our office straightened out after we had piled up all the laundry room stuff in there while installing laundry room cabinets, we were sidetracked long enough to let Matthew find the ink refill kit for our printer cartridges. He somehow managed to open the incredibly tight capped red ink container and made it half way across the office floor before we recognized the problem. Our special spot remover, the carpet cleaner, and Grandma’s special spot remove weren’t enough to help all those little spots go from red back to our carpet’s yellowish color. Instead, it’s now pink there. I suppose I’ll have to cut up some carpet chunks and replace them with spare carpet we have kicking around somewhere. During the mean time, we’ve placed the office chair over the biggest pink spot.

  I should add that while we were attempting to clean the carpet, Matthew found a way to wash his hands with wood polish. That wasn’t pink though.

• Food

  For whatever reason, Matthew decided to react to something by throwing up his food last night. This morning we found two large pink spots by his door. There were a lot of peanuts mixed in but I managed to clean those up pretty good. I got most of the throwup out but the carpet there is still a little pink. I’m more hopeful for this area though. Perhaps a good carpet shampoo can turn the rest back to the correct color.

• Pink Marker

  Of all the markers in the other boys color kits, why would Matthew pull the pink one out. Luckily, we caught this before it went too far. He only managed to turn some of his face pink before we ruined his color party.

If they ever invent straight jackets for two year olds, we’ll be getting a hot pink one for Matthew.

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