toy blocks, in the wall...

Through out the remodel process (and this is JUST THE KITCHEN), we've found a few things, and scratched our heads, wondering how in the world it got there.  First, we discovered water damage, and signs of an electrical fire.  We found a recipe card, and then, a dead bird, that had been behind the drywall.  How did a bird get drywalled over way back in 1950? 

After today, I assume, a child was around during the drywall process, and thought it'd be funny to put it there.  For three weeks, we've had a cutout in our hallway, that was going to be for light switches, but then it was discovered, we could connect the old, low voltage system, to the new can lights in the hall, and all 8 of the hall switches would run them, so it's going to get patched.  For three weeks, it's been unmolested by my 2 1/2 year old, this open hole, that he can reach up to, if he streches.  But today, while the drywall guys work in the kitchen, he fills his tractor wagon with blocks, and drives it up and down the hall, and today he notices, really notices, that hole.  What to put in that hole? Hmm?  How about some blocks.  Why not. I am not sure how many blocks got dropped down that hole before he noticed they were not retrievable.  He asked me to get them out.  And really, the only way to get them out, would be to punch another hole, this time, at the bottom, to reach in and retrieve them.  That's not going to happen. 

So, I've decided I need to buy a journal, and keep track of things we do to this house.  Summer 2009, reattach all drywall with screws, get it all textured.  Uncover the original wood floors, and have them refinished.  Janurary 2012, put in the water filtration system, for the whole house (yeah, right, our plumbing is so screwey, we're lucky anything gets filtered). Spring 2012, pour a new patio in the back, for the hot tub. Late winter, early spring 2013, gut the kitchen, insulate the two exterior walls in the kitchen, rewire the kitchen and laundry room, add whole house smoke detectors, replumb the whole house, seal up some toy blocks in the wall between the hallway and the living room. I might as well do this, because this house belongs to my husbands family, and it will be passed on to our children, to raise a family in, if they choose.  Which is half the reason we are doing all these updates to it.  For them.