painting daughters room

So we are starting another project. Albeit a little one but still we are tackling one more while there are a few that still need to be done. My daughter will be 6 at the end of January and she will be having a birthday party. We have not painted her room and she is putting us on a timeline of getting her room re decorated before the said party. So today we decided to paint the walls and trim.

It was great, we woke up and the kids all decided to lend a hand. Taking toys out, pillows, blankets. They were all little helpers. Once the sanding commenced they went off playing. They played happily all morning. The painting started and we let them have a turn. It was great. We stopped for lunch and decided that the kids were doing so well, lets skip nap. Yeah, right. For anyone that has young kids you understand the mistake we made. I don't know what we were thinking. Well I do, getting Nora's room done, but still we should have known. About 2 pm rolled around and our youngest Gavin was loosing his cool if someone said anything to him. Our 4 year old Caleb was getting quite mean, and our sweet sweet 5 year old Nora repeatedly said "you are so annoying!" to both brothers and our dog Teddy.

 My little helpers, so talented

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