I am getting to experience the terrible two's first hand. Eva decided that I wasn't jumping to her bidding quite fast enough & threw her lunch plate full of food on the floor! So I helped her down out of her booster seat & sat her on the floor to pick up her food. Then I told her she was going to "Time-Out" because we don't throw food on the floor at Aunt Martha's.
She was crying, then pissy, then screaming 'cause "you scared me!". Well "Time-Out" is fine & dandy if you have a "Time-Out" out place-OOPS. House under construction, no room totally finished, certainly no place you're going to leave a 2 1/2 yo alone. So I picked her up, popped her back in the booster seat, strapped her in & carried her in the chair to the dining room, it's not used during the day anyway. Well what the heck....it worked!
Hey Gramma Colleen-start thinking about a time out spot.....we still have half a year to go!
Remember back the end of February, when they poured the self leveler on the loft floor & then they installed the sub floor; then we had that leak ???? Well about the beginning of April, when they were finally ready to continue installing the hardwood, they found a hump, so a section of the the sub floor had to be cut out, the floor underneath sanded & the sub floor section reinstalled.
OK we're finally ready to start laying the hardwood! They started in the room off the loft and continued thru to the loft. Eva & I got the floor in the room off the loft all cleaned up & isn't it beautiful??
The glue that is used to attach the hardwood to the floor is nasty stuff. Think sticky glue traps for mice, only on a much larger scale. The glue is "plopped" (no other way to describe it) onto the floor & then spread with a trowel. Tom & Mandy have this part down pat. 
They lay the floor & then I come along..."the seam inspector"....well at one point on the installation of the floor, we waited a little too long to make sure the seams were tight. The glue was already setting up. We know how anal I am & Tom & Mandy did their damnedest to attempt to get those seams to butt. They pulled up part of the floor, they slid a long stick under the existing floor (well actually 3 of them) to try & align the seams.The sticks got stuck, one of them broke off under the floor! What an absolute disaster! There was this nasty glue everywhere. On the tools, on Tom & Mandy (but mostly Mandy), they'd get it on their shoes & track it on the finished floor. They'd try & pick something up & because the glue was now so tacky you couldn't get it off your gloved hand! Mandy's jeans went right into the garbage at the end of that day! Man, what a mess! They did their damnedest to make me happy. I'm sure at one point they both wanted to take one of the floor boards with glue on it that they had to pull up & just hit me upside the head with it! But they just kept on smiling.
Not to mention that I, as the detail person does the clean-up of any glue that seeps up between the seams, well, I certainly had my work cut out for me now. When they finally knocked off at 6:30, I now had to spend the evening on my knees cleaning up all that stray glue. See if I open my mouth at all about the seams when they lay the Dining room floor....
