Things are moving along nicely at chateau Mordecai. Heather is slowly growing fuller with each day, and Cletus, running out of room in his hotel, has been forced to kick so I can feel it due to his not having any room to move. I win this round. Your move, Cletus, your move. (Have to instill that unhealthy Mordecai competitive streak early.)

Our house has been a slight madhouse, with a constant flow of extremely helpful visitors. First, Kristina and Ryan threw us an awesome baby shower, and at said baby shower we received the most practical and awesome gift from Mr. Preston Dyches..

A home exorcism kit. Comes complete with Cross, Holy Water, Rosary Beads, and Mini-Bible with the important parts underlined and highlighted for the time when your special young child starts barfing pee soup at you and floats above the bed. We scored the motherload and offer thanks to everyone who came. (Thank you notes forthcoming.

The weekend of the shower, Jo came to town to help us paint Cletus's room. The room formally was my patriotic Blue office, which has now been relocated all over the house, along with all my stuff (most of it went to the basement storage room.) We decided to use the blue as a base and paint fun colorful doohickeys all over the room, adding stars and clouds and making it sort of a sky. We started with a cow jumping over the moon that we found on the internets and went from there.

Additionally, I used to have 2 huge shelves of DVD's which had to be unmounted and left 8 giant holes in one of the walls. To cover it up, I came up with the idea of painting a fleet of spaceships with aliens over them. Heather thought I was insane and suggested that I would be the one who would have to come up with the art. And so I did.

Jo also painted some cool little monsters to hang on another wall. Between all of us, we got the concept going. Jo and Heather did all the painting and heavy lifting. I contributed chalk drawings of the spaceships and the non-threatening and completely not scary to a toddler aliens. (I hope I don't turn him into too big of a geek too early.) Next up, building all the furniture...