Scribbles

We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight.  I love having them in our home.  They bring such a nice spirit with them.  I made studded ham, twice-baked potatoes, veggies with dip, and clementines.  For dessert we had whoopie pies.  As we were waiting for the missionaries to arrive, Allison wanted to make a picture for them.  She was sitting down at the table working on her picture, when Carter asked for a pen too.  I assumed he wanted to make a picture too and so i gave him a pen and then went about last minute dinner prep.  

So the missionaries arrived and I had finished the prep work and we all sat down at the table.  Just as we're about to say the prayer we look down at the plates and they have all been decorated with bright blue pen.  On one is a smily face and on another is a figure 8 type thing, and another was full of scribbles.  Carter, i realized, had had other plans for the pen I gave him.  We had to pause dinner while i cleaned the plates.