My children are almost three. I should know better. Any prolonged stretches of silence should automatically sound warning bells in any respecting mothers head right? WRONG! My warning system must be down for repairs because it took me 20 minutes too realize that it was far, far too quiet in my house.
My two darling lovely children took this momentary lapse in my system to participate in the ancient art of cave painting on the kitchen walls with...JELLO!!! 
I post this as a warning to all mother and/or potential mother. Never, never let them out of your sight. The minute you do, that is when your "mother signal" will go into the shop.
Looks like I have some cleaning to do....
Oh I feel you honey! I know when it's quiet for more than 2 minutes in my house something has got to be going down and it ain't gonna be pretty. That happened about a week ago and when I went to investigate I found my almost 2 year old little girl and her entire room covered in baby powder! Good luck cleaning up the jello!
Heeheeheehee....
Just when you think it's safe to take the retraints off them...
When my son was 3, he to watercolor markers to all the White appliances in my kitchen. The kitchen was a large room that housed a refrigerator, dishwasher, stove, washer and dryer. He put his artwork on every appliance. After I lifted my jaw off the floor, I gave him a damp rag and allowed him to clean up his masterpiece. He is now 27 and has a Masters degree in Art. He has sold oil paintings of the Old Masters Style for big bucks. So, don't get to mad, you might have a blooming artist someday. Just hand them each a washcloth and let the cleaning begin.
I had a friend who's 2 year old twins removed all the wallpaper from 3 walls of their bedroom when she thought they were napping. *lol* When she went in to peek at them, they were fast asleep in their cribs. They did the redecorating and then climbed back into bed. She didn't even know they could get out of the cribs! 
I will never forget the day my friend called to have me come over and see her new couches ~ gorgeous stuffed blue denim!! (I still dream about them, I loved them so much) So her twins go down for a nap and we go to the back patio for a little coffee....when we came back in 15 minutes later, the twins were, of course, wide awake and had grabbed a tub of margarine from the fridge. . . . . and were literally rubbing it into the brand new sofas ~ I kid you not. 
I think I was more upset then she was......
In my house, silence usually indicated the unauthorized presence of nail polish
When my son was 3, he gold hold of a Sharpie. I,too, should've realized something was wrong when it was too quiet... He sharpied the bedroom walls & the back of the door. :'(
My kiddos never painted anything, Thank God! They just gave eachother hair cuts! My son still had his baby curls and my step-daughter had long curly blonde hair (theyre 3 months apart). They were supposed to be napping and my DH went to check on them. . .before he opens the cracked door he hears, "It's my turnna cut. Be still!" My son was to the scalp on various parts of his little head and my step-daughter was to the scalp on a huge area right in front middle of her little head. Took a while to grow that back out. Who knows where they got the scissors! It's a good laugh now!
Elle
My kiddos never painted anything, Thank God! They just gave eachother hair cuts! My son still had his baby curls and my step-daughter had long curly blonde hair (theyre 3 months apart). They were supposed to be napping and my DH went to check on them. . .before he opens the cracked door he hears, "It's my turnna cut. Be still!" My son was to the scalp on various parts of his little head and my step-daughter was to the scalp on a huge area right in front middle of her little head. Took a while to grow that back out. Who knows where they got the scissors! It's a good laugh now!
Elle
my twins used a marker on each other to color. took three days to wear off. as it faded it looked like bruises. i was waiting for DYFUS to come knocking on my door...
Well, let's see...what have my almost 3 yr old twins done?
Permanent marker to their tummies.
3 Americolor gel bottles each on their heads and faces.
Fishing in the fish tank (poor goldfish was sent off to "sea" later that night and replaced the next day).
Tried to do a load of laundry for me (took the repair man 3 hours to get rid of the soap).
And finally, snuck out the front door to color the sidewalk with petal dust (But mom, it's chalk!) (And the door now has an alarm).
I know all about that! My daughter is four and my son is two and a half.
There was the time my daughter flushed her dora toys down the toilet. . . and we had to call a plumber to get them out because they didn't go all the way down. She went through that phase of loving to flush, and right now of course my son is Captain Commode and LOVES to flush it and see things disappear down the hole. We keep the bathroom door closed, and occasionally locked.
She for some reason LOVES to smear stuff on the walls. I think she's gotten three tubes of beaudreux buttpaste and wiped them on the walls at various times. This stuff leaves grease spots on the wall, BTW. Hand lotion, makeup, whatever I'm dumb enough to leave out goes on the walls.
I stupidly left the flour on the counter, one time and she decided to make BISCUITS in the middle of the kitchen floor. I went into the kitchen (it was far too quiet) and found her COVERED in flour with a measuring cup, naked, surrounded by a sea of flour and asked 'What are you doing??' She looked up at me and smiled and said "Making you biscuits!"
Don't ask what a two year old boy can do with a bag on m&m's. You'd not think it could get that messy, but it can.
Daughter (are you sensing a pattern here?) got ahold of my LIPSTICK and drew on the wall with it. Dark lipstick doesn't come off of flat white wall paint (apartment, they use cheap paint).
Daughter got the bubble bath and poured it all over the carpet. That was a LOT of fun to get out. 
But it was easier than the chocolate syrup.
My son loves to draw. Particularly on the sofa and chair. . with ballpoint pens. Nothing takes ink off of vinyl furniture. Nothing. But this is why we have vinyl while they are young. He also enjoys drawing on the wall in ball point pen or crayons. I don't care if it says 'washable', it's almost impossible to get off the walls.
She also got into my purse and found my mascara. . which she believed was nail polish and painted her fingers and toes with it.. . while we were in Lowe's and the DH who was in charge of pushing them around in the cart was apparently blissfully unaware of what she was doing.
Oh and nothing is safe from my daughter if it's sweet. I'd made some frosting and put up high (so I thought) and she got a chair and took it into the kitchen, climbed onto the counter and got it and took it to her room (I was changing a really dirty diaper on her brother and didn't see her do this) until I realized it was quiet and found her in her bed, with frosting everywhere. If she can reach a cake, she's going to stick a finger in it, guaranteed. She also reached my fondant roses yesterday. My very first ones, and one was so pretty. . .she ate four of them. They are both determined and can climb like monkeys, there isn't anywhere in the house high enough they can't reach except in locked closets!
We won't talk about the water, or the cellphones. 
Or the haircuts.
So, you're not alone. It's not that I don't pay attention, but unless I
glue my eyes to the kid 24/7. . . then she sneaks stuff by me sometimes.
At least my son is pretty straightforward. His thing is pulling all the books onto the floor or drawing on the furniture, he's not nearly as inclined to mischief as his sister. Yet.
Thanks everyone for making me feel better. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one whose warning system has gone down. After reading all these posts, I'm going to thank the good Lord that it was only JELLO...
dldbrou, I did hand them both washcloths, and honestly, I think they had as much fun cleaning it up as they did creating the mess!
I had a friend who's 2 year old twins removed all the wallpaper from 3 walls of their bedroom when she thought they were napping. *lol* When she went in to peek at them, they were fast asleep in their cribs. They did the redecorating and then climbed back into bed. She didn't even know they could get out of the cribs!
My 3 yr old did something similar to that. When she was about a year old she was in her crib and pulled almost all of the wallpaper border off of the wall that she could reach from her crib. It was put above a chair rail in her room. So it was within reach of her. She then proceeded to eat it. UGHH!!! I then had to pull her crib away from the wall or else she would continue to keep trying to eat the wallpaper border.
When my DD was almost 2 we had just moved into our house and we had put the changing table next to the crib. Stupidly, I left an entire box of cornstarch on top of it. When I went in to get her the next morning and get her ready for church she was covered from head to toe in cornstarch! It was caked on her eyelashes - she looked like a ghost! Later that day when I put her down for her nap, I thought she couldn't do any more damage with the cornstarch (which I hadn't had time to clean up yet). WRONG! She had just taken what was left over on the table and covered herself again. Thankfully I had enough presence of mind to grab a camera, so now I can laugh about it all. Although, it's been 4 years and I'm still finding cornstarch in various corners of the room!
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