We leave the baby in the cleanest, most finished room in a portacot (which never works, she invariably starts complaining loudly and I end up wandering around holding her instead of working, or spooging filler in with one hand and baby in the other). Finished all the renovating on the PPoR when I was pregnant, which made it very hard to drag my fat waddly self up to the top of the scaffold to paint the ceilings. The bathroom reno has been put off, but that's easy enough to do at home when the baby is napping. She can happily sleep through the sound of sledgehammers on stone. She only sleeps at home, as soon as we go somewhere else she'll go to extreme lengths to NOT sleep.
We usually make a point of renovating without the Other child. She is noisy, distracting, complains, gets bored easily, doesn't want to help and is generally unpleasant to have around, and this behaviour isn't limited to renovating, she's just one of those kids that always needs someone paying her attention. She'll only play by herself if she's backed into a corner and forced to do it, which is our usual modus operandi as we work from home - she has a LOT of toys and books, enough to amuse and educate an entire third world country, but she manages to avoid them at all costs. She also has a strange inability to feel pain so it is a good idea to keep her away from building sites, she only notices cuts and splinters when they are bleeding so much she can't miss them or when they get so infected she looks like she's about to get gangrene.
So we do PPoR renovations in school holidays when she's off at Grandma's and we've been working on the IP strictly during school hours. Does limit the time we have somewhat as the IP is 25 minutes drive away, but its better than having the prissy pink princess fussing around us. We're taking her with us today, I told her to pack some books and toys to play with and she refused, she says she'd rather do nothing
Any middle eastern princes wanna buy a very pretty but high maintainence queen brat? I'll take 6 goats, a camel and a Hilux thanks. She's been particularly irritating lately, can you tell?