Ok, I know what you’re thinking. Painting caused migraine. Not quite. I had a migraine , an ocular migraine to be exact on Tuesday morning while I was at work and I certainly freaked out my employer. Praise God though that all is well with myself and the baby. In fact, he was very very active while the OB was measuring him and detecting his strong little heartbeat at 155bpm. I’ve also gained another 3.5 lbs so I’m now at 136.5lbs at 26wks. woo hoo!
Better news to report is that we’ve painted the nursery on Wednesday evening. Ray couldn’t have chosen more perfect colors for him and I’m so happy that I handed over the swatch and said “pick two colors” because as my friend Chelle can testify – it takes me EONS to settle on a color. I was surprised to learn that Walmart now does color matching and also offers Kilz with low VOC which meant that I could take part in doing something I completely love doing – PAINTING! So with swatches in hand on Tuesday night we took a late nite trip to Walmart and had our two gallons made (one of each) and came home. Of course, no painting project goes without some quirks right? Well, although the Kilz paint is low VOC we still opted to open the window in the nursery and turn all the fans on in the house to make sure I didn’t get , ahem, high on paint. After a few minutes we started noticing knats on the walls…sticking to our new pretty walls! ARGH. Where in the heck are they coming from? After a while we realized they were so tiny they fit thru the screen on the window and were happily attaching themselves to the new sky and grassy hills we were painting! DANGIT! There we are, with tweezers picking out bugs from the wall. Tinybugs,but bugs nonetheless. I joked “we should leave them here, afterall it IS going to be a jungle theme.” Note to self though – unless I want the baby to enjoy a knat sandwich we can’t be leaving that window open when the lights are turned on to attract the bugs at night!
Well, we were so exhausted after our creative painting job that I didn’t want to go grab the 20D to take really good shots so I got these from my lil Sony camera. I’ll take more tonight after he shampoos the carpet and we assemble the furniture in the room. I can’t believe it’s all coming together now!!!!
This second image came out kinda funky and is not true to the colors. The one above is though.
Doesn’t it rock?!
For those who want to know, the blue is Sky High Blue and Leapfrog from ICC Paints, but again you CAN do a color match with Walmart. Use base 1 Enamel interior for the Sky High Blue and Base 2 Enamel Interior for the Leapfrog.
