Kitchen Repairs in Pictures

Long story made short:

Tube that takes water to freezer to make ice got leak.
Water dripped into downstairs neighbor's kitchen.
Took out floor to find leak.  Underlayment and subfloor very wet.
Found mold under sink.
Mold remediation=very expensive
Waited a very long time for mold test to work.
Waited an even longer time to get mold test results back.
Took out remaining floor, found linoleum remnants and crumbly cement. Fridge moved to front room.
No toxic mold!
Cabinets and oven moved out of kitchen and into front room.
Week or so for Super Man Brian (I bet you never would have guessed Super Man's secret identity, since he's pretty good at hiding it.  Now you know!) to repair everything.  Oven again!
Still working on minor cosmetic repairs.

Story is not so short after all.

 

Lessons:  1. If you feel like you want more space in your house, take everything out of one room and distribute it throughout the rest of your house.  Leave it there for one month, then put it back.  You'll feel like you have all the space in the world!

2. Less technological appliances are less likely to cause problems.  Making ice cubes with trays would have been so much easier!

3.  If I lost my oven, I just might make it with my crockpot and microwave!

4.  Mostly, I am glad to have everything back to normal working condition.

Guessing Game!

Here are some names of foods that Camden likes to eat. Can you match them up to what they really are?

1. moon cereal                                     a. chocolate milk
2. kangaroo cereal                               b. ketchup 
3.  cakes and srip                                 c. Frosted Mini-Spooners
4. O's                                                   d. hot dogs
5. hogs                                                  e.chocolate pudding
6. ownjes                                              f. oranges
7. chup                                                 g.  tomatoes
8. chalk mulk                                        h. Raisin Bran
9. chalk puh-ings                                    i. Cheerios
10. tow-maters                                      j. pancakes and syrup

And the answers are: 
1. Moon cereal = Raisin Bran (There is a picture of a sun on the box, and Camden didn't like "sun cereal", thus "moon cereal")
2. Kangaroo cereal = Frosted Mini-Spooners (There is a kangaroo on the bag.)
3. cakes and srip = pancakes and syrup
4.O's = Cheerios          5. hogs = hot dogs            6. ownjes = oranges
7. chup = ketchup         8/9 = chocolate milk/pudding  
10. Tow-maters = tomatoes

Cubby, little tubby, all stuffed with fluff

Camden absolutely loves music.  He always has.  Except he never sings.  He may say a word or two if you stop and wait for him, but he never sings.

Throughout the day, he constantly asks for various songs, none of which are "real" songs.  But, I've learned you can sing about anything to almost any tune.  Anyway, today we first went on a big (jump) giant (jump) brown (jump) bear (jump) hunt, and we got safely home.  During the t-rex hunt, Camden looked terrified as we ran through the grass, climbed down the tree, swam across the lake, and got back home.  We talked for a few minutes about how t-rexes are all gone.
"No t-rex all gone".
"Yes, they are."
"Safe t-rex tree." (I think he meant we'd be safe from t-rex in a tree.)
"Mom would always protect you from T-rex.  I would climb this tall tree to keep you safe." (It's a good thing there aren't any around.)
"Mom climb tree. " (And, on to new topic)

  Then, he wanted to go on a giraffe hunt, and I decided we'd better calm things down.    Along one of our stops, we had to go through sticky, stinky mud.  Camden called it the sunky mud.  So, then, at Camden's request, we sang (to tune of Wheels on the Bus) about how McQueen, Tow-Mater, Doc, Flo, and Ramone either got stuck in the sunky mud or got out of the sunky mud.   

Willy, nilly, silly, big boy!