MAC and Me

We had such a busy and amazing weekend. I was not going to get in to the string of events from yesterday until I had uploaded the Dedication pictures so I am going to skip over that for now. I will tell you, it was one of the most proud moments of my life and we could not have hand picked a better crowd to share it with.

So, a couple posts ago I had mentioned the fact that my two year old loves to get in to my make-up, right? Fabulous! Well, I have a pretty funny and LONG story to share. Let me start from the beginning.

About a week after we moved in to the new house, Aaron had a business trip planned. He was gone from Sunday to the following Friday. What did I learn in this time period? Patience! We got ourselves in a great routine in no time at all. This week was "Blue's" 4-month check up. We were given the thumbs up to begin cereal and baby food. I started with cereal for breakfast, lunch, and cereal and a vegetable for dinner. Well, at the beginning it took a good 20-30 minutes to get him to finish his dinner. In this time, "pink" would usually either find her way back to her room and watch TV or she would linger in the kitchen playing with the water dispenser. One night during feeding time "Pink" was not in clear sight. I assumed she was in her bedroom watching TV. I finish feeding "blue" and we walk back to "pinks" room. She was not in her room. I began calling her name. We walked around the whole downstairs, well I thought the whole downstairs. I hear a little something coming from my bedroom. I walk in and there she is..."Little Miss Make-up" meets "The Bride of Chucky!" She had my lipstick all over her face, she had blush all over her forehead, and a few different eye shades in small circles strategically placed around her face. I guess we could call it an organized disaster.

From this point on, it has been an every other day occurrence at the least. I know what you're thinking. How about you start putting your make-up out of her reach? It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks! And, it's easy to teach a new dog new tricks! She has always loved standing in the bathroom while I am getting ready watching me apply "my face." She will stand there and repeat, "I want some" over and over. To appease her, I would barely sweep my blush brush on her cheeks and that would make her laugh. Then she would move on to something else. So much for that happening now. She is in to make-up like a fat kid is in to cake.

She completely emptied my blush, she ruined and emptied 2 compacts of eye shadow and finally, she ruined 2 tubes of lipstick. This weekend I was finally able to make it to the MAC counter to replenish. I bought new powder, blush, 3 compacts of eye shadow, lipstick, and lip gloss. Was I mad, no! Every girls loves going shopping for new make-up. This just made my bill a little larger than originally anticipated.

We had Ellen's oldest daughters 5th Birthday Party on Saturday morning so I was very excited to use all of my new make-up. I opened every single box and put the new make-up in my make-up bag. Everything was so new, and crisp. Oh, and I am just positive it looked exactly the way the MAC girl did it in the store. Maybe NOT!

Saturday afternoon we were all hanging out in the living room and I notice "Pink" is not present. I automatically jump up and think, "Oh no!" I ran back in to the master bathroom and there she was, "Little Miss Make-up" meets "Rambo!" She had rolled my new lipstick up her cheeks making perfect lines slanted upward. Of course while doing so, she broke off the tip. She opened my powder compact and ran her fingernails all through the perfect texture. She opened all of the new shadow colors and they were barely touched, but touched. The only thing she could not quite grasp was the tube of lip gloss. Do you think I could find all of the above available in tubes resembling lip gloss? I think not.

The top shelf of the linen closet has a new resident. Guess who? MAC!