Well, to those of you that don't already know, we have decided that for Conner's birthday we are going to give him the bunkbed he's always wanted, and to let him and Finn start sharing a room. Gilby found some plans online to build the bunk bed (which is actually a loft bed), for which he intends to start building this weekend. But, the caveat: we have to switch Conner and Avery's rooms. Avery's "old" room is much larger, and b/c of the placement of windows and doors, it is the only room that the fullsize loft bed will fit in. So, this means that both rooms have to be repainted. This is work! I love the green stripes that I had in Ave's old room, so I wanted to do them again. Only this time she has asked for "pink and purple" (as she does with everything these days). I explained that purple won't match her bedding, but I'll give her some pink stripes along with the green ones. Well, painting stripes is, exuse my language, a BITCH. The measuring, leveling, and taping takes forever. This is on top of the priming that I did yesterday and the base coat I did today. Anyways, I've just finished drawing the lines on the walls. I plan to tape them and paint them tomorrow. We'll see if that happens. I'm pretty sure that at the very least, we'll have her sleeping in her new room by Friday night. Then it's on to start painting the boys' room.
Gilby is headed to Norman tomorrow to conduct on-campus interviews. I hope tomorrow is a better day than today, because if he hadn't come home tonight, I told him I may have had to donate our kids. It was just one of those days. Avery was throwing up last night at bedtime, so we had to skip out on ballet today, and thus didn't get out of the house. They were so rambunxious (sp?) that I should have started drinking early. But, if I had done that, the lines would probably have been wavy.
Since Gilby is out of town and Avery wasn't here all day (and Finn was napping for the afternoon), I took it upon myself to get as much done in Avery's room so when she got home from her playdate she could see it all put together. Believe it or not, with my awesome helper (shown here flexing his "guns") I was able to move all of Conner's furniture out of the room, and all of Avery's furniture in. As Conner would no doubt tell you, it was hard work. But, in Conner's words, it's all worth it, because Avery is "gonna go nuts!"
I owe so much to a friend of mine today. She offered to take Avery after MDO so she could play with her daughter (also Avery). It was because of her that I was able to accomplish so much. While it's not totally finished, I at least got Ave's room done enough that she will get the "Ta-Da" moment. I still need to do some touch-up painting and add the horizontal pink stripe around the top of the vertical stripes. But, I think it turned out OK. I went a little overboard...I found the pink canopy and the princess castle wall mural while at Lowe's today. To me, the decorator, it's not at all how I would envision decorating my little girl's room--it looks like a princess threw up pink, in my opinion. But, I think Avery will think it's absolutely fabulous, which is the whole point. I'll have to let you know...she's on her way home now.
