Tubbie Paints

For Claire's birthday Uncle Greg (who will sooo get his when he has children) bought her bathtub paints.  Uncle Greg buys the best gifts for Claire and Oliver.  Notice I said FOR CLAIRE AND OLIVER!  Not so much for Mom and Dad.  Some of his previous gifts have been the bathtub paints, Singamajigs, and the best yet A DRUM SET!  Like I said before, he will soooo get his when he has children (sorry Aunt Sue:)).  Anyway, Claire has been dying to use the paints.  So the other night I busted them out (of course on a night that Daddy was working).  As you can see, Oliver couldn't wait to touch it.

Then eat it.

So I finally set them up on the side of the tub.  If you look closely you can see that the paint is dripping down on to my floor.

This worked for a while.  That is until Oliver noticed the shaving cream.

I quickly removed the shaving cream and then Oliver noticed a new tub of paint. And no, no one is bleeding in the tub.  That is just the red paint. 

Yep, he almost got it.  It was at this point that I noticed the blue paint around his mouth and realized that maybe this should be a toy for Claire and Claire only. He was not happy with this decision but hey, what are ya gonna do.  So I started to clean everything up.  It was at this point that I realized the bathtub paint was in fact soap.  Sounds like a good idea right?  Yeah, it was...that is until I TRIED TO CLEAN IT UP AND THERE WAS SOAP SUDS EVERYWHERE!!

I finally got it all cleaned up (you can only imagine how long that took).  Then I refilled the bathtub for a regular bath.  The bathtub paint/soap made EVERYTHING slippery.  Poor Oliver usually walks along the edges of the tub but today he just kept sliding down.  It was hilarious!  Claire and I were laughing so hard we could barely help him!  So my overall rating on the bathtub paint......super messy, terrible to clean up, may blind your children and cause diarrhea, but SUPER FUN AND WORTH EVERY SECOND OF THE MADNESS!!!! 

PS I secretly love Uncle Greg and Aunt Sue's gifts.  We always have a blast playing with them.  

But shhhhhh don't tell him that :)