Fun with paint

The boys absolutely love to help with projects around the house. Goodness knows they've seen lots and lots and lots of them in their day!

One of their favorite things is painting. Sometimes it is really hard to just hand the brush over to a 2/4/6 year old and let them go wild--but last night, we found a project they could do and they. had. a. blast!!

Daddy and the boys, before the paint job

Oh, and, sorry about the "graphic" nature of the following photos. We always have them do home improvement projects in their underwear, remember?

The project of the evening was: painting their own closet! We didn't want them to paint on the walls (due to the nature of the project we are working on) but we gave them absolute free range in the closet. And, this masterpiece--no matter what they did and however it turned out--was staying!

Each boy got a brush, and got to pick their own starting color....

{Poor Ethan. All I can think when I look at the above picture is, "It really rots having hand-me-downs when your older brother is built so differently than you are and has tendencies to stretch out all of the clothing he wears....."}

E, digging "his" orange

After a few minutes of random brushing,
Colin decided to get a bit more creative, and wrote....

....his name! All by himself. I thought that was great, and I told him so!
Cam overheard, and, not to be outdone, followed suit!

He ran out of space and had to go backwards!

They switched brushed several times, so that each boy
worked with all of the different colors.

They were having so much fun!

We made sure to record the date and their ages....

....and actually had to wrap up the project because they said they
were freezing in their undies *grin*.

A final shot in front of their very first life-sized masterpiece!

And, one with Mommy. For good measure.
{And, because Shane was there and I had
the opportunity to actually be in a picture, for once.}

*sigh* I love my boys.

I'm so excited to see how wonderfully their room is coming along, and so thrilled that they got to be a REAL part of it! More pictures soon!