Think Pink!

I'm still getting my head wrapped around the idea of having a little girl. After Evan, everything was so blue, sporty, rough and tough, etc... so BOY! So when it came time to set up Lil' Babe's room, it was hard to come up with a color palette that we liked. There are some colors that Pops does NOT like - purple/lavender and green. We were leaning towards red, but wasn't sure if that would be too much to take in every day. We were going to do pastel colors - one on each wall, but thought that might be too distracting. (If you saw our bedroom, you'd realize where we're coming from... as monochromatic as you can get.) After a few trips to Home Depot, we decided on using the Disney Behr paints. They had a cute two-toned design that we liked (from their "Princesses" line, no less!) So in the end, we went with PINK! It was a day and a half of intense painting, but we got it done and I am in love with the little pink room.

Through it all, Evan has been fantastic. He loved helping and wanted to paint, tape, clean up... anything to help us. When it was time to wrap up the first night to get to a friend's birthday dinner, Evan was sad. "I don't want to go to Uncle's Happy Birthday... I want to PAINT!" The only thing that sent up a warning flag was an incident last night. With his old crib set up in Lil' Babe's room, Evan started climbing up the front. "Evan, please get down. It's not safe to climb." Evan replied, "But it's MY crib!" Uh... no.

Here's a pic of Evan's room before he was born. Pops made those stencils - flower, leaves, and two kanji characters: Chinese 'good luck' and Japanese 'love'.



Here's Evan painting Lil' Babe's room. Big helper!



And here's the finished product. PINK!



Here's a closer look at the stencil (cherry blossom design) and the cute clock we found at Target.