it's color time!

Now we are at the really fun part of the basement- color!!! Brian started with Dominique's room. She had picked pink and purple. It's really bright in there and really pink and purple! But with the trim it will be pretty. She loves it.

Brian saved Ivan's room for when he got home from school so Ivan could paint too. The bad news is that we were going to reuse the green paint we had originally picked for the living room that we thought was too pale. Brian has had it in the garage where it froze solid. He brought it in a few days ago and it thawed out, but it thawed into a unmeltable mass of goo and won't remix. The good news is, Ivan just wants color. He is so excited about painting his room he's decided that we should just use any old color we've got. He run's from one wall to the next, use this, or this! We do have some left over green from our living room, but not enough for his entire space, so I just convinced Brian to mix some of our colors and see what we come up with. Worst scenario, we mix, it's horrid and he has to go get more paint, which is what we are looking at anyways. Speaking of Ivan being colorful, here is their fashion show of everyone in Dominique's clothes. I'll be keeping this one as sabotage leverage during his teen years.

Here, we were at the Koop's where the kids were doing some play. They of course were doing a play for us because they wanted an excuse to wear goofy costumes.



Did you like dressing up as a child? Did you put on plays? for who?



My siblings and I were always putting on plays for my parents. Then they got a video recorder and we (Jenn) rewrote children's story, we did costumes, makeup and accessories and recorded ourselves. We thought we were highly entertaining and it really was pretty hillarious, mostly because we got to see us in our younger years and hear my brother's voice again before it deepened. I know we will always treasure these memories and recordings of our theatrical geniuses!