It begins...

So the painting has begun. I must say, picking out the right color is never easy. It's crazy how different the samples look compared to the actual paint on the wall. Trying to choose the right color yellow seems especially hard b/c we don't want it to be too bright.. or too yellow.. or too orange.. etc. Here is what the nursery looked like for a few days so we could see the samples in every light of day..

So we finally chose a color.. Frosted Lemon to be exact. So far I think it looks great! We chose yellow because we are doing his room in primary colors and thought the blues, reds and greens would really pop against the yellow. I'm getting almost gitty watching it all come together.




Big thanks to our buddy Dave (who will be a new daddy in January) who came and helped G paint. I think I got about 1/3 of one wall done and had to call it quits due to the fumes.. blech!! Once again Gerald has been a trooper!! He leaves for work at 6 a.m. this morning, takes a short lunch, comes home, grills steaks for dinner and goes to work finishing the painting in the nursery. He has been amazing. It's been great having him involved in every aspect of preparing for Jake's arrival. He even put in his opinion on how the crib skirt and curtains should look. He put up with me and his sister being at JoAnne Fabrics for about 2 hours looking at patterns and material. He jumped right in. I love that he gives his opinion! We are suppose to be getting the finished product in the mail tomorrow.. I CAN'T WAIT!! The bumper pad is suppose to be in Monday and the crib should be here Tuesday and my wonderful parents are bringing our changing table/dresser from Dallas on Friday. The room is really going to look like a nursery. Soon all it will need will be baby Jake to make it complete. Well.. and all baby Jake needs is a middle name to make everything complete. I guess we've still got 11 1/2 weeks to figure that one out.