The Blues

We've decided to give Will's room a paint refresh, and since he's now 3-and-a-quarter, we thought we'd give him some input. So, as if finding "the perfect blue-gray" isn't hard enough as it is, we've added a preschooler into the selection process. Fortunately, this also adds some humor into the mix.

I had forgotten all the crazy names they come up with for paint colors since choosing paints nearly four years ago. Will's favorite paint name (not color) is Seersucker Suit. But we're currently choosing between Brittany Blue and Atmosphere Blue (this looks much grayer in person). We dutifully painted sample cards and held them up for Will to choose. He immediately pointed to Brittany Blue and said, "That's my favorite!" Hooray, we have a winner! That is, until he pointed to the other one and said, with equal enthusiasm, "And that's my favorite!" He added, "I like the darker one." Daddy cleverly asked which one was the darker one. "That one," Will said, pointing to the opposite one. And so, we have yet to make a decision. Now that I look at Seersucker Suit again, maybe we'll put that back into the mix of choices. It really is a fun name to say.

Meanwhile, inspired by the painting to do some additional home maintenance, Mama and Will went to the big hardware store to pick up some new light bulbs, a heating duct cover and that sort of thing. Will spent a lot of time at the lumber yard picking out trim with Mama in his formative newborn months, and seems at home in big hardware stores with lumber stacked up to the ceiling, as opposed to our neighborhood store, Cole Hardware, that we frequent about twice a week the rest of the year. And he loves to refer to the big stores as "Potty Stores," what with the row after rows of toilets for sale. At any rate, the heating duct cover that inspired this visit was (of course) at the very, very top of the shelves. Much to Will's delight, the salesman had to get three different ladders, each progressively taller, to reach the one that we needed. Will's favorite was the "Tilt-and-Roll" ladder. "I can tell that you're a mom with a mission and there's no way you're leaving without this cover tonight," said Bill the salesman. A mom at Home Depot at 8 o'clock on a Monday night with a three-and-a-quarter-year-old? Yep, he's got that right!

We'll update this post with a picture of Will in his new blue room. Once we've picked a color.