all new things

A lot of new things have happened around here. I thought I'd post a couple of pictures to demonstrate.

We finally stripped the wallpaper and painted our study. Room #2 is finished!

As you can see, the study has both raspberry and white paint. It's fun.

Here's finished room #3. We stripped the bathroom wallpaper and painted most of the room white, with one wall painted blue (as reflected in the mirror above). At first, we painted the accent wall light yellow, because I told J it would look "fun" and "cheerful." However, as an art historian, I have the problem of always trying to contextualize colors and give them different associations. And when the bathroom was finished with its yellow wall, I didn't think at all about cheery, fun things. All I could think about was urine. Perhaps that's something appropriate to think about when inside a bathroom (ha!) but I couldn't handle it. We repainted it the next day with the new color. Thankfully, this color blue does not suggest any type of bodily fluid to me.

And room #4. We're not completely in love with the color we ended up with (we hoped for a slightly darker shade of brown), but it's probably for the best. This lighter color really brightens up our already-dark bedroom. With the completion of this room, all of our painting and wallpaper stripping finally ended! Hooray!

We have new flowers in the kitchen. It's winter outside, but definitely spring inside.

Sam also is trying out new things. Lately, he's insisted on sleeping on his stomach (which is a big surprise, since he has almost always hated "tummy time" until now).

Sam's new pastime involves giving "Papal blessings" to other people (and to himself in the mirror) with three extended fingers.

He also likes looking at things from a new perspective...

...and wearing new clothes (thanks, B and JR!).

Lately, Sam likes to sing along with whatever I happen to be singing. I think this clip is so funny; he swivels his little toy pig towards his mouth like its a mic. I think we've got an aspiring lounge singer on our hands.