Grady's Room is Sick

The part of fall break that I chose to leave out was that the first day home we discovered a wet spot in Grady's room. Under his train table. The carpet was real wet. I knew it wouldn't be good- I was ready to move. But instead, we had to take care of it, you know, like adults. We called a plumber. 

He said there was a leak under the slab. I was a bit panicked that he cut a hole in the wall, but that was just the beginning. 

The next day men showed up with jackhammers. Now I was really anxious. For a good two hours they worked in Grady's room and left behind a hole in the dirt. Luckily Grady was at school, but Kendall and I had to hide in the backyard and try to play. She got sick of the noise by the end and just hid on my lap. 

We got the pipe fixed and Derek was even able to do the cement work and put the carpet back. I was so impressed with his "handiness." But then the drywall guy came to fix the wall. And he found it was wetter than we expected- and had mold. 

So he basically took the whole wall out. They brought fans and dehumidifiers. They hopefully fixed the problem. We've now been going on more than 2 weeks of Grady living in our room and sleeping in our bed. It's been quite an adventure. 

Kendall had been intrigued with the whole thing. We told her that Grady's room was "sick" and that the men were helping to make it better. That seemed to pretty much pacify her, but she's still always asking us about Grady's room and if its better. Luckily, it almost is. We just need to do some painting and carpet shampooing this weekend. Hopefully Grady's room will be healthy again soon and G will be back to sleeping in his own bed!