Over and Over

Today I am wondering why children do the same things they have been asked not to do again and again. Let's use Addy as our example. She has gotten into a very bad habit of using her body as a canvas rather than...um PAPER!! I give her quite an assortment as well. Anything from magazines, spiral notebooks, construction paper, old mail! Still I can find her with ink all over her body. Yes, I have banned her from markers and pens! She will inevitably come up with another one. For about the last two weeks I can clearly see everywhere Addysen has been in our house. That happens to be because her path is either blue, purple or green!! Two days ago she marked an entire wall in the hallway with a pen. Thank goodness for paint that wipes easily. That is not the point though. She is old enough to know better. I asked her, "what do we color on?", and she answered, "paper."! So, I know she knows! Also, when I saw her come upstairs and she was looking more like a smurf than she used to, I asked, "what is that on your tummy, and your legs?", and she actually asked me, "where??". I was baffled. What do you mean where?!? So, for a while now she has had some sort of markings on her that she was clearly not born with! I am not sure where she keeps her stash of markers and pens. All I can do is hide what markers I can find, and hope that she can't find them!