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Furniture Painting Time!
This was a huge endeavour for us. The furniture we bought was mostly melamine (except for the dresser) and so it had to be sanded, then majorly primed, then 2-3 coats of dark blue paint. We spent almost our whole weekend working on this furniture but I'm so glad with how it turned out!
Had to move the furniture inside on Saturday night and do the painting in there because we were worried it was going to rain overnight.
He is such a little boy! Climbing up the ladder while Daddy is getting stuff taped in preparation to start the BIG paint job!
Dancing boy...really all he does is stomp his feet and make this cute little face
but he thinks he's dancing.
He's bored with waiting so decided to watch some cartoons and snuggle
with Coal on Mommy and Daddy's bed.
It's time for James to help now! He doesn't like getting dirty so this is him crying because he's got paint on himself.
Then he realized how much fun he could have and he was definitely into it!
James went for his nap so now it was Mommy and Daddy's turn to keep the painting going. I HATE painting, and especially closets but really didn't want Jim to do it all himself so I helped out for a few minutes. Oh yeah and I'm not a very good painter either so Jim prefers if I just stay away :o)
The awesome blue wall is starting to look very bright! I think the blue tarp on the floor isn't helping but I will admit I was a little bit afraid at this point!
Hahahahaha....Jim matches the walls!
The starting of the painting of the white wall. We were told we didn't need to prime this wall because it was dusty green. I wish we had though because it took 3 full coats to cover it!
Here's the beginnings of putting it all together to look like a little boy's room!
Side note about the Alfie...my dad who insists on calling James by Alfie bought that name set and it sat on a shelf in his room and he never once noticed it. I wondered whether by putting it so prominently on the headboard that I was accepting the name, but I'm not, I just think it looks cute up there with Freedo.
Don't you know last night during his first time seeing it don't you know he jumped up on the the bed and started spelling out his name and saying "falfie". Oh dear!
A wonderful Daddy after working a 10 hour day and playing a baseball game still came home and put up the curtains so this Mommy could get the room done!
Time for James and Mommy to make the bed! He was so happy to help me with it and as soon as it was done he ran out and grabbed Nana and Papa and brought them in to see it, exclaiming happily "big boy room and big boy bed"
Cute family photo
He jumped right in and said night night and then told Nana to give him a kiss. If the side bedrails had been installed already we for sure would have put him to bed in there last night!
Snuggles with Nana
Spelling his name
So, tonight was the big first night in the bed and just under an hour later and not a single peep out of him since I left the room. We talked about it all night, moved his letters over and read stories and sang his song.
Here are some pictures from tonight.
James is going to "help" Daddy put up his name letters.
Although not the intention, they turned almost exactly the same as in the nursery!
Playing with his new lamp (which may not stay in if I can't trust him not to pull it off the shelf)
Reading his favorite animal book
Mommy gets to snuggle now in his big boy bed while we read our stories and sing our songs!
Aaaaww....he's so grown up now! How did he get so big that he is in a big bed?!
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