Superhero Room

After I painted Catie's room yellow back in January Robbie has said that he wanted his room painted.  About a month ago he cried that his room wasn't "cool enough" and couldn't sleep in it.  (How does he know that??)  Matt's mom had already planned to come down for his birthday, so we planned to have her watch the boys while we painted.  Thursday morning Matthew moved some of the furniture out of the room and pushed the rest into the middle.  We pulled Robbie's mattress into the computer room because we knew they couldn't sleep in the room that night.  I painted around the trim and ceiling while Matthew did the middle parts.

All ready to paint!  The blue stripe at the top is where Matthew taped around the maroon stripe that was there.  Robbie cried because the tape that Matthew bought was too dark (this was Wednesday night), so we got some of the blue paint and did a little by his bed (to the left of the mirror).  He was, and still is, thrilled with the blue we picked.

Let the painting begin!

Superman blue

 Matthew had to retape the stripe so we could paint it red.

Closer look at the red stripe.

Barbara took the boys to Chick-fil-a for lunch and we were going to put the decals on the wall while they were gone.  Unfortunately we were delayed by the guy cleaning out our dryer vent, so they got home before we had really started putting them up.  It was hard keeping them out of the room, but we told them there was a surprise that wasn't ready yet.

I'd say they were excited.  :)



Alex kept wanting to go in his bed to see the planes and cars and then go to Robbie's bed to see the superheros.  We finally told him we're not going to keep taking him in and out of his crib, our arms were sore from painting!

Dusty Crophopper and friends

Lightning McQueen and friends.

Superheros!!

Catie is 4 months!!!!

It was a fast month!  I'm still waiting for Catie to roll from her stomach to her back, but she hasn't mastered that yet.  She has started reaching for toys in front of her or she'll follow it as you move it.  And I love that she is grabbing her toes!  I know they are going to go into her mouth as soon as she can maneuver them in there.   Catie is giggling now and it's just so cute!  I love to hear it and hear her talking.  And I really love how the boys are with her.  It's so cute when they go up to her to give her a hug or a kiss.  Of course, there are times when I'm holding Catie and Alex comes up and says "baby swing" meaning I need to put Catie in her swing so I can do whatever he wants me to do (usually get him a snack).  Her schedule has once again changed, but I'm fine as long as she takes a nap while the boys are sleeping.

We celebrated Matthew's birthday tonight with his mom, Uncle Mark and Aunt Brigette.   I think Catie was upset because she didn't get any cake.  Poor thing has 4 more family members who have birthdays before hers.  Maybe she'll get some on Alex's birthday.

Catie's pictures

1 week

 1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

Grabbing her toes!