Wall decor and happy birthday, Andrew

I'm not sure how my three oldest have managed to do this, but Andrew married someone 1 day older than him (glad you had a great birthday yesterday, Sarah!), Jesse is marrying someone who is just about 2 weeks younger, and Mariana has been dating someone (for a loooooong time) who is about a week younger. There are 365 days in the year, you know, kids?

So, last night the Good Doctor told the rest of the kids that if they marry, they can only marry someone whose birthday is within one month of their own.

Some smart-aleck asked, "But I thought you always told us to choose our spouse wisely..."

To which the Good Doctor replied, "Yes, but birthdate is now part of that whole 'choosing wisely' thing."

So happy birthday, Andrew! Since Andrew's sense of humor is most like mine (I'm not sure if I should apologize or ask him to thank me), we are celebrating with a little home decorating reveal.

You see, sometime around Christmas, the Good Doctor got all in the mood for some old fashioned house touch-ups. He bought himself some paint and started to spackle all those kid-made holes and scratches, most of which probably came in the past oh, 3 years or so. If you know what I mean. (Hint: a certain currently 5 year old with drumsticks) When I asked how long these white spots were going to be part of our wall decor, he confidently announced that it wouldn't be long because he had paint. He was going to use it. To paint. The living room and dining room and hallway. Soon.

That was around Christmas. Sometime in February, one of us got the bright idea to slowly add to some of the spackle spots, to see how long it would take said doctor to notice. And ran my plan by Andrew who thought it was great (of course) and we took bets on how long it would take Dad to notice.

We're almost a month into the project and still going strong. Except the Good Doctor's house touch-up enthusiasm apparently died and he convinced my father to do the painting for him this weekend.

(Drum roll, please...) And happy birthday, Andrew.  Enjoy your day and our results!

Hallway spots...

Before...

After

Stairway spots...

Before...

After...

I call this composition "Butterfly and Fish"

Bottom of steps...

Before...

A little difficult to read but we started with 1" and 1/2"

After...

Am I the only one who sees a walrus and an angel here?

Andrew, I hope you have many laughs today and all year. Never lose your sense of humor because someday your father is going to catch on and it won't be as fun up here... Then again...