Sabina

My kids have always been big on drawing on themselves, I think like most kids. Unlike most parents, we don't tell them no, or to stop. It was actually one of my son's preschool teachers that decided my son could color on himself in any fashion, saying that it was our "family culture." That being said, my two yr old daughter's "tattoos," as she calls them, rarely look as good, placement wise, as that first picture.

I got a bit choked up when he said how it was hard not having anyone to share the joy of her first steps/words/milestones. It's true, no one gets as excited as a parent (birth or otherwise) about these things. I forget how lucky I am sometimes to have a fabulous co-parent for my fabulous kids.