i can't wait

to post pics of my best friend brandi's baby's room. for the past 2 weeks we have been prepping for the arrival of her first baby, a boy. he's coming any day now. the c-section is scheduled for friday afternoon but he may come sooner. she lost her plug at panera bread this evening. tmi? perhaps.

i somehow got roped into helping with the painting of the room last week and now the stencils or sticker thingys are going up. i really don't mind helping... it's actually fun for me. and it looks adorable. the painting started last week. half way up a butter creme wall, baby blue was painted all across the bottom half of 2 adjoining walls. next, a crimson stripe above the baby blue. the following day, a 2 inch chocolate brown stripe above the crimson. and on the fourth day, another chocolate brown margin line below the crimson stripe. it looks good.

tonight, the most complicated or most troublesome of the sticker pieces went up. first, a 3 ft long green crocodile above the stripes on the wall to the right of the crib. and then a 3 ft tall orange giraffe on the top right of the wall behind the crib. the giraffe took a beating before going up. we got him stuck to the croc and all tattered and torn trying to get him loose. but as we delicately operated and place him on the wall, this beat up guy quickly became my favorite of all the creatures. we stuck a little dragonfly to the left of his face, he's so darn cute. numbers of different colors and sizes also went up. 4,5,6,7,8 & 9 are done. 1,2&3 will probably go up tomorrow along with a palm tree, monkeys and a lion.

pics to follow...