Wobbity wobbity, busy day.

So, what did you do over the weekend?

I, with much help from my husband, finished (well, 95% finished) painting Bisquito’s room. It’s 3 white walls and one light-but-very-bright green wall. It looks pretty good in natural light, but under incandescent light, it’s kind of WOWZA. Hopefully getting some stuff on the walls, some furniture in the room, and a rug or two on the floor will break things up a bit. It does look nice with the hardwood floors, though. I like it, but then I like exciting wall colors. All the typical baby colors just look so Easter eggy to me, and it’s only Easter once a year.

Also interesting: we painted a square on one wall that’s kind of the activity zone. Denny did a couple of coats of magnetic primer, then he put chalkboard paint over that. We’re going to arrange some kind of frame around it to differentiate it from the rest of the wall. Denny did all that part because those paints aren’t available in low-fume varieties, and we want Bisqui to be born with minimal chemically-induced dumbening.

We also drove all over the area looking at cribs and changing tables and stuff. We still haven’t decided for sure what we’re getting, and it was all becoming quite frustrating until we arrived at Bliss for the Baby in Coralville, which is apparently the only place in eastern Iowa that has stuff that isn’t totally crappy and/or totally absent. I hate shopping in general, and I especially hate shopping if I don’t see anything I like, so it was a welcome sight. We might get this crib. We might not. It’s a possibility.