work in progress

Here are some pics of our work so far. I've painted three bedrooms and two bathrooms and prepped our main living space for me to start tomorrow, hopefully. I feel like I've done nothing but eat, sleep, and drink this house for the last week. These next four days are my final push to get it ready and pack up our stuff for our move Sunday. I have no idea how it will all come together, it's a mystery.
I finally washed my paint clothes after wearing them four days in a row. They're fresh for me to jump back into tomorrow.

I allowed Payton to help me paint for a total of five minutes. I have friends that are way cooler than me, Shalane, Stacey, who let their kids participate in the paint process. It was painful for me to even watch her roll for the few minutes she did. Control freak mom and painting with kids does not mix well. A big thanks to Trav's parents who came up and watched the kids for three days so I could paint stress free. What a gift!

After the hoopla of Payton's color choices for her room she finally settled on this. I took her to the disney paints at Home Depot and had her pick out colors she wanted. Of course, she spied the Tinkerbell room pamphlet and the color scheme drew her in. Thank you Disney! We're going to stencil vines up the walls in different shades of this blue once we're settled.

Trav sported this around the house over the weekend, courtesy of Josh Solorio.

I think our contractors were very impressed and intimidated.

In other news Jonah has now lost four teeth total! This pic is when he was at three and I haven't been able to document the last one. He has a huge window and a sweet lisp that I am eating up!

He crawled into bed with us at 3:15am the other night, wide awake and wanting to chat. He told me at least three times what a sweet mom I was. Totally worth losing sleep over. Tonight I "puddled" with him and told him that Trav and I thought he was a special boy, and he said that I was a special mom and Trav was a special dad. Our cup runneth over.
Peace.