What Jonathan does at school...

First off, I could just kick myself for not taking a picture of this. Everytime Jonathan makes a good mess I'm more concerned about getting it cleaned up than taking pictures.

So it's bedtime last night and I knew something was up when Jonathan refused to take his shirt off in front of me. I totally encourage modesty, but this boy has never been that modest. I asked him, "What are you trying to hide under your shirt?" At this point he tries to convince me that a friend stuck crayons down his shirt and somehow those crayons wrote on his skin. Impressive crayons. I wasn't buying it.

Once I got the shirt off it was obvious that the "crayons" were actually markers, and that those markers were very artistically inclined. Not only had they tatooed his back, they had gotten his chest as well. Finally, I got some of the real story out of him. I doubt I heard the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but it was more believable than markers that draw by themselves.

During reading time Jonathan's friend "B" was able to aquire a couple of black markers. He and Jonathan then used those markers to help each other tatoo themselves. While the friend wrote on Jonathan's back, Jonathan did his own chest. This is where I wish I had a picture because Jonathan gave himself a (can I say this on a family blog?) bra!

I think he was just trying to connect the dots, so to speak, but that isn't what it looked like.