You wrapped your house in coffee cups?

 Here are multiple ways to keep a baby happy while everyone else is busy. I can tell you none of these items works for babysitting for more than ten minutes:

It's a photo that would horrify any contractor... items you do NOT want to ever see at the jobsite. Rest assured we were always out of the way, and the construction moved to the outside of the house for a while.

We not only wanted insulation on the inside of the house, we wanted a layer on the outside. 

The local building inspector thought this was a good idea; he used to live in Idaho and said they often built with even more insulation there. I wondered if we were traumatized by living through the winters in an RV?

 Anyway the exterior insulation arrived one day in big cardboard boxes. Upon arrival, we were supposed to inspect them for damage before the driver left. I was very embarrassed that we had no place to unload there but right there, and just wanted those boxes off the street!

And of course there was damage, because these things are basically foam. 

We ordered a type of rigid insulation that was not only affordable but combined a number of elements into one piece. We could also nail siding to it. It's still a little complicated to me, but essentially this stuff screws to the exterior wall, and then the siding nails into the plastic studs on it. Then the siding isn't directly being attached to your wall, and rain can't seep in through any of the siding nail holes to the wall. it's an extra barrier between the siding and the wall. Hope that makes sense. 

Yet another photo documenting a haul up the "driveway."