Fun diversions during kitchen revisions

On the day that the floor demolition was done, I needed to make dinner.  The kids were bouncing around, clinging to me, and generally unsettled.  In a flash of inspiration, I announced that they could color on the brown paper that covered the really sticky parts of the floor, and since that was a pretty large area, they thought it was a great idea.  Both Hannah and Naomi decided on drawing boats.  Sim decided to spill the crayons and spread them around.  You can see that in the upper right in this picture:

Hannah dubbed her boat The Texan, and put sails and two flags (American and Texas) on it.

Naomi drew The Washingtonian.  If you can see the waves in blue under the black thing, you’ll notice that The Washingtonian is sailing quite nicely, despite a really amazing number of high, pointy waves.  Also, The Washingtonian is spelled out next to the good ship, as you can see here:

The only slight issue being that the letters are in no particular order.  Totally CUTE!

Above is The Texan in all its fully-colored-in glory.  It is quite striking.

And here are some of the letters of The Washingtonian’s long name.  You can also see the choppy, choppy sea below.

Mr. Jeremy (as the kids called him) thought it was a hoot that they had drawn pictures on the paper.  (Can one say “a hoot” any more?  Or is it archaic?  Probably not, since you all know what I mean.)  He brought his camera on Thursday (his last day at our house) to take pictures.  We bade good-bye to him before we left the house for the day. 

And when we got back, we discovered that Mr. Jeremy had left the kids a drawing on the covering of the floor he’d pulled up that day.  It’s not a boat, but the girls both agree that he’s a great artist.

I mean, really, how many contractors would do that?

Today, Naomi was weeping because Mr. Jeremy wasn’t coming back.