Welcome to Drew's Jungle!

I will never forget our first discussions of how we should decorate Clayton's nursery. Wade said that he wanted to paint a mural - grass on the bottom, sky blue at the top, a road as the border, and the cars and trucks from Clayton's bedding in the middle. I am embarrassed to say that I laughed in his face. I have known Wade since we were 9 years-old, but I had never seen his artistic side. I figured that he would start the mural and we would end up paying an arm and leg for a "professional" to fix it. (Isn't that terrible that I had such a lack of faith in my hubby?!?!?!) I couldn't have been more wrong. Here was the result...

The mural took forever! Wade swore that our next kid was going to have four white walls. :)

However.... as soon as we picked out Drew's bedding, Wade started planning his mural. He has worked on it during EVERY free moment that he has had over the last few weeks. But, finally, it is done. I helped him a lot more this time, and really enjoyed having a project that we could work on together. We spent many hours up there with paintbrushes in hand. I'm not going to lie - Wade logged many more hours than I did! I tried to be helpful, though. It was his vision, and I am so proud of the hard work that he did for our baby boy.

"Batman" guarding his brother's room (from our dog) while Daddy started painting.

Wade painting stripes on the tiger. He used this teeny tiny brush to make sure that every line was perfect.

It is finished!!! This is the view from the door when you are walking into the room.

The bedding didn't have a monkey on it, but we decided that we definitely needed one. (I'd like to kick a shout out to 2521!)

The elephant is my favorite.... poor Wade spent FOREVER on all those stripes.

Drew's room just makes me happy! I go in there just to look at all the cute stuff. Thanks, Honey, for all your hard work! I know that our little boy will love his room. (Hopefully he will enjoy the safari theme until he leaves for college - HA!)