Big Baby

When the Goob was little bitty and in need of a dresser, the incredible Uncle R. donated one to the cause.  And I stained it with burgundy paint.  (Which looked amazingly pink when it was dry.)  And added rope handles.  And attached a blue hankerchief corner, so it would look like things were hanging out of the drawers.  (How clever and cute!)  The Goob's socks and underwear are still in the bottom drawer of  the pink burgundy dresser where I put them originally so he could reach them himself when he was potty training.  Only the Goob's socks and underwear are significantly bigger than when he was two.  The dresser drawers are unfortunately the same size.  (And things hanging out of them are not so cute or clever.)
Thus, the project of the month:  redoing another donated dresser for the Goob's room.  The Goob sanded and I painted it--blue. (Same rope handles, but I did learn a thing or two about choosing paint colors.)  The only problem was where to place it in the room.  So I looked in the Goob's room and I had this revelation that maybe I could take out the table and chair.  Because the Goob hardly ever used them anymore.

 Because maybe he had out grown them. 










What do you think? 

We also took out the way cool cowboy grooming station that Super Aunt Sara had made him, because the Goob had to squat down to see himself in the mirror.  It was a sad day to see my baby boy's things go to the attic.  Neither of us was ready to tackle the toy box (which was also donated and also painted many years ago),

so we just moved it under the window where it will serve as a bench

 until the Goob leaves for college.







And yes, those things are really in the toy box, and yes, I did cry almost the whole way through Toy Story 3.