Saturday, June 27, 2009

Construction Fun

A few weeks ago we discovered that our dishwasher had been slowly leaking and completely destroyed the flooring in front of it, so we put in a new dishwasher and figured we could just fix the ruined flooring and be done with it-boy were we wrong! It turns out that we had replace the entire downstairs floor and it has also spurred on an entire re-model of the downstairs (Yay!) So we are in the middle of tearing up the old floor and putting down an environmentally friendly bamboo floor, which looks really nice so far, and repainting everything, from cabinets to walls to molding (Thanks Nana!) Matthew has loved being a big help through the whole process and I'm just ready for the whole thing to be done! The tile in front of the fireplace has been cracked for awhile so we decided to just tear it up; Matthew helped to smash it with his hammer ;)

He then decided that the hallway would be his designated work spot.



He felt that he could get "his" work done with his leaf blower and proceeded to use it all around the house to help get the molding off of the wall-I love the mind of a three year old!


Putting in the new floor which will hopefully be finished up tomorrow (Please!)

We now have two new holes in the wall due to Matthew's "hard work". He felt so important to be a part of everything that I don't even mind :)

He decided that his table saw would be the perfect tool for the molding and spent a good 30 minutes using it on the wall-again, I just love the way his mind works at this age! :)

I'll post pictures of the finished project-I can't wait!

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