After existing in outline for over a year we finally began to paint the monkey room. This will be the girls' room. Its a jungle mural that my brother painted in outline. Mostly monkeys plus a tiger, lion, snake and sundry tropical characters.
Completely incapable, at this point, of painting within any kind of line much of our time was spent figuring out ways to allow Havana to enjoy herself without doing too much damage to the mural. One was to give her the green paint to color the grass at the bottom. Another, we figured out as we went, wast to water down her paint so dramatically that it could be wiped clean later.
We've been talking about painting for a couple of days. As we entered the room, she turned to me and said to me, "I'm so 'cited." As we get older we learn to control our 'citedness, at our own loss.
