Starting the dinosaurs

Sometimes I wonder to myself why I volunteer myself for certain projects. I have an idea in my mind and I think it will come out okay, but I sometimes forget about how much time it will take me.  

 So for the boys room I thought it would be really fun to draw and paint some dinosaurs on the wall. Thomas wanted a volcano as well because all the dinosaurs lived in the time were there, "are a ton of volcanos". So I sat down with four sheets of paper and planned what I wanted to do on the four walls.  

I let the boys pick out what kind of dinosaurs they wanted and what color each of them could be. We ended up with five dinosaurs, one volcano, and one tree.  After I sketched all the dinosaurs on the wall Eric and I thought it would be better to prime each of them to help with the blue/green coming through. Even with the primer coat I still had to paint to coats of the color paint for each one. Along with outlining each one twice. Lets just say I am still working on  them.

The hard thing with these boys is mommy time to do these should be like all I have to do. I am glad that they are excited, but I am reminded daily that the triceratops and the volcano is still a "ghost" (from just having the primer) and I NEED to get it done. This picture is not the best but Thomas is much more relentless about bugging me so the T-Rex was the first to be all done! Out of all of the I think he came out the worst. Eric and I thought he had too much to eat a time or two, and when I was going to slim him down and make him smaller Thomas said he loved him the way he was so I left him. The boys, especially Sup, has had some really bad dreams of late but the boys say the dinosaurs protect their room and keep them safe :)