The Thin Green Line

So, Tuesday was my latest doctor appt. Everything was still nice and normal. Andrea (Dan's sister) went with me to this appointment and got to hear the heartbeat... These are all kind of uneventful appointments in my opinion :) But, it was nice to have someone else in the family come along!

On Saturday we started to paint the base layer of the baby's room. The blue went on very nicely and I painted the old, white dresser to match: Blue with green drawer fronts. This went so smoothly I had no doubt we'd finish it before it got dark. However, that wasn't the case because it was after the blue that we started to have problems. The first was the tape. We taped at about waist high for the marker as to where the green line would go after. First the tape wouldn't peel off and the drips of blue made it stick to the wall and we had to go around the room scraping it off with our finger nails because when you just peeled it straight off it tore into little shreds. I said it was because of the tape we used but Dan reminded me that he had bought actual painting tape. So, that was annoying but no big deal, all the little pieces eventually were cleaned off the wall. Next was the ugly, off-white paint in this place is obviously very cheap and as we peeled the tape off it started to peel the paint right off the wall and revel the previous color of the bedroom which was pink! Well, this was no big deal though as the green stripe was still going to be painted there to cover it over. However, this meant that we couldn't tape the bottom portion of the green line because if it peeled up the white again we had no way to fix that on the lower portion of the room.

Next came the green line. Dan swore it'd be easy and his hand was steady enough that we wouldn't need to tape anything. Then he dunked the new brush (a flat square one made for painting edges) in the paint and slapped it again the wall. Only problem is, he didn't squeeze out enough paint and as soon as it hit the wall it dripped copious amounts of paint down into the other section!! Argh! So trying to fix it, he wiped it with a dry papertowel which just made it smear all over the wall. Fortunately, this was at the top portion of the wall so he just needs to repaint the blue section again. After that he got the hang of it and with only a few other drips (which by the way wipe cleanly off with a magic eraser) and a few wavy areas (since we couldn't use tape) we... well mostly Dan... got the job done. Needless to say, however, painting the lines ended up being a huge chore and, while it looks awesome, it was a lot of work. But Dan has such a great attitude and never said one word of complaint! He's awesome.

Next weekend we are going to finish it up with the actual artwork and Andrea is coming over to help with that. I'm really excited to get it finished as I am now 31 weeks along and have only a few weeks of pregnancy left so I'm getting antsy for completion :)