The paint incident

When we moved into the house we are currently in, we wanted to make it homely and so gradually painted each of the rooms. As I told you in the 'Poo' tale, Kayleigh made it a little difficult to get it done.

One day we were getting into painting the main bedroom, which we were doing all white as we got a really good bargain at Bunnings on a 10litre pot of Dulux paint. It was easier just to get straight white and do both the wall and the ceiling the same colour. Kayleigh and Natassja were keeping themselves amused with their toys in the room and playing on the swings outside. Terence filled up the tray of paint again and kept painting, but he forgot to put the lid on the paint tin which we had on the laundry floor. When we had to fill the paint tray up again, we opened the door to the laundry, and there was Kayleigh, paint up to her elbows on both arms, hand prints all over the washing machine, dryer, walls and floor and painted footprints from one end of the laundry to the other. Terence took one look at Kayleigh and put her in shower and told me to clean her up while he started on the laundry. The paint on the white goods wiped off really easily, and the floor was OK to mop (several times) but Terence had to wait for the paint on the walls to dry before he could sand it back and re-paint the laundry.